Gia Lai plans to spend 2,675 billion VND to save downstream areas and prevent historic floods from recurring
Gia Lai launches a major remedial campaign downstream of the Ha Thanh River, focusing on handling flow bottlenecks, clearing encroachment and investing in flood diversion and dyke projects.
On February 21, Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee announced that it had approved solutions to strengthen and roadmap for implementing the downstream flood drainage system of the Ha Thanh River in Quy Nhon and Tuy Phuoc areas in the 2026-2030 period, with the goal of ensuring the safety of people's lives and property and proactively controlling flood risks.
The province identifies improving flood drainage capacity as an urgent task, in order to limit damage caused by rain and floods, and prevent the recurrence of deep flooding causing great losses like the historic rain and flood in November 2025.
The annual control of flooding is aimed at reducing disruption to people's lives, especially in the Quy Nhon area. When the water level is below alarm level III, it is basically not necessary to relocate the entire area, only interspersed and local relocation for households in particularly critical locations, with a high risk of unsafety.
To achieve this goal, the province resolutely clears and dismantles illegal construction works, encroaching on dyke corridors, embankments, and riverbeds that obstruct the flow; does not legitimize old violations and does not allow new violations to arise.
Solutions are implemented synchronously, combining construction (building dykes, embankments) and non-construction (planning, management, early warning). In which, priority is given to definitively handling flow bottlenecks; strengthen planning management.
According to the roadmap, in 2026, the province will clear 75 households violating the protection corridor of the Cat River dike, including 47 households in Tuy Phuoc commune and 28 households in Quy Nhon Bac ward. Violations related to illegal construction, encroachment on the protection corridor of dikes, riverbeds, and riverbanks that narrow the flow will be strictly handled.
The province is dredging and clearing the Truong Uc River, Cat River, Cay Me River and Ha Thanh branch to improve flood drainage capacity; deploying the construction of dykes on the left bank of Ha Thanh branch to protect key residential areas.
In the 2027-2030 period, the province will complete the dyke system of the Cat River and Cay Me River according to the plan; invest in building the Huynh Mai flood drainage axis to distribute floodwater from the Kon River from the An Thuan dam to the Thi Nai lagoon, reducing pressure on the Ha Thanh - Truong Uc river system; build a flood overpass on Dien Bien Phu street, replacing the existing spillway traffic route, ensuring safe and sustainable flood drainage.
The total cost of implementing the solutions is more than 2,675 billion VND; of which more than 280 billion VND is expected in 2026, and about 2,395 billion VND in the 2027-2030 period.
Gia Lai Provincial People's Committee requests communes and wards to review and fully statistically count households violating the dike protection corridor and households located in the Ha Thanh river flood drainage corridor; organize clearance, coercion, site clearance, arrange resettlement in accordance with regulations; thoroughly prevent the emergence of new violations.
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