HO TRAM VIETNAM SANCTURY

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“Interrest in The Residences at Senctuary has been tremendous,” states David Clarkin, Managing Director of the developer, REFICO. “We believe there has always been a strong demand from the residents of Ho Chi Minh City for heachfront second homes, and we are the first to provide this product to the market,” Mr.Clarkin continues.

Owners will be able to participate in the rasort’s rental program, adding financial peace of mind to their investment.

Vietnam’s premier beachfront community ha brought contemporary tropicfal living within reach. The project showroom in Ho Tram Hamlet is open to the public and welcomes visitors on Saturdays and Sundays by appointments.

Stage 1 complete 1st quarter 2009. Prices starting from US$ 495.000.

Sewage centre plans give Yen So park second chance

The US$400mil-project includes cleaning up the lakes in Yen So Park, located 6km south of Hanoi in Hoang Mai District. The five relatively large lakes in the isolated park are currently filled with heavily polluted and toxic stagnant water.

Yen So Park has been holding more than 50% of Hanoi’s waste water. The water is later released into the Hong (Red) River without treatment, according to Dr Lim Phaik Leng, chief consulting director for the Yen So Park Project. Leng said that the current system is leading to massive destruction of the park’s environment and horrible odours stemming from the lakes.

The Ha Noi People’s Committee has granted an investment licence for the incorporation of Gamuda Land Viet Nam Ltd, a wholly foreign-owned enterprise of Gamuda, Malaysia. The company will export its expertise and technological knowledge for the Yen So Park Project.

The first step in the park’s rehabilitation will be to clean the five lakes, polluted after years of receiving Hanoi’s waste. The work will see the dredging of the bottom and sides of the lakes, and an improvement on the lake’s edge to restore the water retention capacity. The transformation of Yen So Park should help improve the water quality of the Yen So canals and lakes.

Capital city’s lakes losing their flood-control effectiveness

ExpertsThe city has filled in many lakes and pools, making the impact of floods much more serious, according to Nguyen The Phuc, the National Assembly member of Dong Da District.

If we continue to build stone embankments, there would be no way to prevent floods in rainy seasons, Phuc said. The immediate consequence of building stone embankments was that those lakes become dirtier and smellier, especially in the wet season.

Lakes play an important role in harmonising the atmosphere and regulating water levels when there’s a risk of flooding, according to Pham Ngoc Dang from Vietnam Environmental Construction Association. He said that the recent repairs and renewal of lakes in Hanoi had encouraged more floods in the city.

It was unacceptable to build stone embankments for lakes when they caused more flooding”, Dang said.

Architect Hoang Dao Cung from Viet Nam Association of Architects said builders did not build the necessary slopes for the proper absorption of lake water.

Hanoi: polluted lakes without solutions

In 2004 the West Lake Investment and Development Company introduced a project to improve the quality of water in West Lake by aquatic plants. According to the project’s authors, this method is ‘killing two birds with one stone” because growing aquatic plants could restrict pollution-causing factors while they are animal feed and materials to produce fertiliser.

This company also presented another method: treating the lake’s water by useful microorganisms. Under the influence of microorganisms, the bad smell in the lake would decrease remarkably and the lake’s environment would be improved without having to dredge or change the water. Microorganisms could be brought to the lake in forms of solution or pills so the lake’s landscape would not be affected like using aquatic plants.

Meanwhile, Professor Vu Hoan from the Union of Hanoi Scientific and Technological Associations suggested the use of locally made, low cost microbiological products to treat the lake’s water environment. Those products are being used at a lake near the Kieu Ky rubbish dump in Gia Lam District, Hanoi and some shrimp ponds, and have proven highly effective.

The Union of Hanoi Scientific and Technological Associations is compiling a scheme to submit to Hanoi authorities asking for permission to apply this method to treat the water environment at some lakes in Hanoi like Bay Mau and Xa Dan and then at other lakes after that.

In 2005, Professor Nguyen Lan Dung, a National Assembly deputy, presented a measure to improve the water environment of some lakes by different technologies which were successfully applied in China.