After Da Nang had been slammed with prolonged torrential rainfall-triggered widespread floodings over the past week, recovery work was underway in a rush on Tuesday to to deal with the impacts of flooding. The intention was to help to re-establish normality in the lives of local inhabitants, as well as ensure environmental sanitation and urban landscape.

Municipal People's Committee Vice Chairman Ho Ky Minh (3rd from left) in-person instructed the closure of the spillway of the Hoa Vang District-based Dong Nghe Lake

Till date, the bodies of 3 local flood victims in this natural blow have been retrieved, whilst the search for one missing is getting underway.

The heavy floodings also wreaked havoc on Da Nang infrastructure system, including hundreds of fallen trees blocking many roads and landslides, and damaged traffic signs.

Relevant local forces were on duty at all odd hours during the wet days to clear fallen trees and ensure smooth traffic movement.

Thousands of herds of cattle and poultry and 128.71 ha of vegetables in Hoa Vang District were swept away, whist 14 schools here were partially- submerged in floodwaters.

As of Tuesday afternoon, 901 displaced families with a combined total of 3,036 people have returned home from designated evacuation sites after the floodwaters receded. They embarked upon cleaning up what was left after the floodings swept though their homes in a bid to bring life back to normal the sooner the better.

At present, the re-planting of fallen trees has been on track by workers from the city’s Green Trees-Park Company.

Meanwhile, a large number of workers from the city’s Urban Environment Company have been out in full force to tidy up affected streets and residential areas across the city. 

Teacher of Hoa Bac Primary School, Hoa Vang District gearing up post-flooding cleanups to welcome their pupils back

According to the Da Nang Power One Member Company Limited, electricity supplies to the flooding-affected households in hard hit Hoa Vang District have now been restored.

Workers from the Da Nang Water Drainage and Wastewater Treatment Company (DWTC) got involved in opening main sewers along local streets for rainwater to quickly drain away.

On Tuesday noon, municipal People's Committee Vice Chairman Ho Ky Minh in-person instructed the closure of the spillway of the Hoa Vang District-based Dong Nghe Lake for the search for the body of a missing person swept away to the downstream. Finally, the body was retrieved later.

For the time being, a rush is now on the cleanups of heavily damaged schools in worst-hit Hoa Vang District to welcome their pupils back tomorrow, Thursday.

By HOANG HIEP – Translated by A.T