Phu Yen People's Committee has just sent a report to the prime minister and the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control regarding natural disasters and their damage and proposed the need for assistance in overcoming consequences caused by tropical depressions and floods in the province.

According to the report, the tropical depression and the fifth storm of the year in mid-October caused heavy rain and floods, damaging agriculture, fisheries, irrigation works, and other infrastructure.

Damage to aquatic property was about $345,000, for transportation about $305,000, and for irrigation about $223,000.

Many sections of the National Highway No.1A through Phu Yen province must be repaired. Photo: Nguyen Toan

Phu Yen People's Committee said the limited local budget was not enough to respond to the damage caused by natural disasters, especially serious landslides threatening the lives and property of the people and infrastructure.

Phu Yen proposed the government, the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, relevant ministries, consider supporting the province, helping producers repair damaged land following natural disasters and pandemics, and invest in irrigation works, embankments of river and sea to protect residential areas, with the total proposed budget of $6.3 million.

The essential infrastructure works proposed to receive support include the sea embankment in Giai Son village in Tuy An district, with $652,000; the sea embankment in My Quang Bac village in Tuy An district, with $2.17 million; the sea embankment in My Quang Nam village in Tuy An district, with $2.39 million; and anti-erosion embankment in the resettlement area in Hao Son Nam village of Dong Hoa town, with $217,391.

Two other essential infrastructure works in Tuy Hoa with a proposed budget of $434,782 per project are the embankment of the section from Hung Vuong bridge to Da Rang bridge on the right bank of the Ba River and the section from Hung Vuong Bridge to Da Dien estuary on the right bank of the Ba River.