Viet Nam: HCM City plans to build more reservoirs to store rainwater, control floods
HCM CITY — HCM City plans to spend hundreds of billions of đồng on building more than 100 reservoirs to store rainwater and control flooding by 2020 under a flood-control programme.
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The biggest, with a capacity of 20,000cu.m, will be built at the Gò Vấp Flower Village, while the second largest, measuring around 5,000cu.m, will be at Hoà ng Văn Thụ Park in Tân Bình District.
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Experts from the HCM City Urban Drainage Co. Ltd. said these reservoirs could help prevent flooding but have not been connected with the drainage network or used for flood prevention.
The managers of many of the reservoirs do not allow them to be connected with drainage networks in inner districts because the drains carry both rainwater and wastewater, which could pollute them.
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