Dong Nai Province People's Committee on Monday rejected the Ministry of Transport's proposal to dredge the Tri An Reservoir bed.
Dong Nai Province People’s Committee on Monday rejected the Ministry of Transport’s proposal to dredge the Tri An Reservoir bed.
Last year, the ministry asked the local government for permission to dredge the reservoir bed to ensure traffic safety and exploit sand, but the committee refused to do so after conducting research on the proposal.
The committee said the ministry’s project would coincide with a sand-mining pilot project on the Dong Nai River , and the province does not have big ships to do the job.
The ministry’s waterway department had given approval to Hiep Phuoc Maritime and Investment Development Joint-Stock Company to dredge the reservoir’s bed.
The two companies did the work for three months, but they exceeded the permissible mining depth.
Dong Nai Province then forced the companies to stop dredging and appointed authorities to resolve the matter.
Tri An Reservoir, which supplies water to the Tri An hydroelectric power plant, has a total capacity of 2.765cu.km. It was built between 1984 and 1987 and has annual electricity production of 1.7b kWh.
(Source: VNS)
