Binh Thuan: Sand collapsed on the road again

A huge amount of sand continued to pour into the street in Mui Ne late at night 23-4, this was also the second time in three days this situation happened.
Late April 23rd, due to heavy rains, in Binh Thuan, sand landslides occurred on high hills and crashed down the road, of which there were two landslide points in Mui Ne, Phan Thiet and one point in Hoa Thang commune, Bac Binh district.

In just three days, the area had two landslides. Notably, the landslide point at the Gold Sand Hill project continued to pour a huge amount of red sand on Huynh Thuc Khang Street, Mui Ne Ward, Phan Thiet City. This is the second time in just three days that a huge amount of red sand from this real estate project has poured into the street. At 22:30 a.m. on April 23, Mr. Nguyen Van Phong, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee was directly present at the scene directing to resolve the problem. Mr. Phong asked not to let traffic jams happen and mobilized a white motor at night to release the amount of sand to fill the road surface. As PLO reported that on the night of April 20, after a heavy rain, sand from this Gold Sand Hill project collapsed onto the road, stretching about 200 meters long and up to 1 meter thick, completely cut off traffic in the section. this way. Mud and sand also spilled into some neighboring houses, causing two cars and a motorcycle in circulation to be buried by sand nearly half of the car body. The operators had to run away from their possession. According to people witnessing the incident, around 23:00 on April 20, water and sand flowed into some houses on the opposite side, the red sand flood also made the seafood restaurant of Mui Ne fishing village affected. heaviest because it is located at the sand spillway. Mr. Nguyen Van Phong (left), Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee directs the settlement of the problem. Mr. Ngo Tien Ninh, owner of a seafood restaurant in Mui Ne fishing village, said this is the fourth time the restaurant has been affected by the sand spill incident from the project on the hill. The representative of the GoldSand Hill Villa project said that the cause of this incident was that at the end of the project there was land occupied by people, so it was impossible to build a technical drainage connection. In addition, through construction, the Company also proposed to relocate more than 100,000 m3 of sand recovered but not yet resolved. It is known that, after the incident on the night of April 20, Mr. Nguyen Duc Hoa, Vice Chairman of Binh Thuan Provincial People’s Committee sent an urgent dispatch to the Department of Construction to preside and coordinate with relevant units to conduct a physical inspection of the area. Goldsand Hill Villa project. At the same time, comparing all design documents, construction permits, construction items … to determine the cause of landslide, sand spillage on Huynh Thuc Khang street. The Provincial People’s Committee also requested the Department of Construction to coordinate with the Company to completely handle the incident, not to let the incident happen as recently. Implementation results are reported to the Provincial People’s Committee before April 26. The landslide road was covered with sand and the traffic was opened. The official letter of the People’s Committee also assigned the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to review all the documents that the Company proposed to move away from the project about 105,000 m3 of salvaged sand to soon guide the Company to follow the procedures as prescribed, no. prolonging the time to store the aforementioned sand mass in the project area when the rainy season is coming, creating the risk of land landslides, affecting the safety of the people in the area. The Provincial People’s Committee also assigned the responsibility to the Chairman of the City People’s Committee of Phan Thiet to inspect and strictly handle organizations and individuals involved in the land encroachment, obstructing the construction process, causing insecurity and order. ; soon hand over the site to the investor to connect the technical and drainage system. In particular, the above urgent dispatch also stated: “This, the Provincial People’s Committee has directed the People’s Committee of Phan Thiet City from September to 2020, but until now it has not been resolved completely. This is the main cause leading to the above landslide incident. In case of need, the People’s Committee of Phan Thiet City needs to have a plan to send a construction security force in the project area. Implementation results report to the Provincial People’s Committee before April 26 “. Immediately after the urgent direction of the Provincial People’s Committee, Binh Thuan Construction Department set up a team to inspect the infrastructure works of the project. Accordingly, infrastructure works such as leveling, traffic, pavement, water supply, rainwater drainage, wastewater, electricity supply … have been completed, in accordance with the approved design and planning documents. However, the investor has not completed the connection of the rainwater drainage system with Huynh Thuc Khang street, and there is no safety solution, so it focuses on a large flow when there is heavy rain. This causes landslides, damages technical infrastructure works and affects the environment and activities of people in the project area. On April 23, the Inspector of the Department of Construction made a record and issued a decision to sanction the investor with the amount of VND 25 million on the act of organizing the construction of works violating the regulations on quality control of construction works, damage to technical infrastructure works. The Department of Construction requires the investor to urgently complete the technical infrastructure works according to the design documents. During the construction process, the investor must immediately build measures to ensure the safety of the work, not to recur the situation of sand erosion, water overflowing from the project area as in the past. The Department of Construction recommends that the Provincial People’s Committee continue to assign relevant departments and branches to urgently implement the contents under the direction, creating conditions for the investor to complete the connection of the infrastructure works from the project. project with Huynh Thuc Khang route.