Bac Hung Hai Sluice

Project location:

- Red river

- Xuan Quan headworks group

Project tasks:

- Natural land area in the project area: 185 000 ha

- Supplying irrigation water to 110,000 ha, draining 94,000 ha in Bac Ninh province

Project managers;

Nguyen Hoang, Nguyen Van Thuy, Nguyen Xuan Thi, Tran Ngoc Lai, Pham Khac Minh Hung, Nguyen Xuan Lam

Major technical parameters

Work grade: I (Vietnamese Construction Standard TCXDVN 285:2002)

Headworks:

Xuan Quan intake obtains Red river water to irrigate the project area. Dimension of the intake: n(bxh) + lock = 4(3.5x4.5)m + lock. Design Q: 75 m³/s

Bac Hung Hai project was studied by the French with name of Ke Sat 2 project with 2 ideas as follows:

- Constructing large pumping station system to get water from Duong river

- Constructing dike culvert to get water from Red river

With Chinese help, on 30/4/1957, the Ministry of Water Resources submitted the project documents to Vietnamese Government for approval.

The project contents are as follows:

- Constructing Xuan Quan intake with lock.

- Building An Tho tidal sluice for draining entire area.

- Constructing 26 fix pumping stations and 26 mobile pumping stations for irrigating high areas and draining inundation when river water raises up (afterward, mobile pumping stations were not constructed).

- Thoroughly making use up the existing river network in the area. Newly excavating necessary rivers and proposing to construct 1900 structures.

To the year 2003, the project had been completed with following structures:

- Construction of Xuan Quan intake (1958 - 1959) and canal system.

- Construction of large regulators including: Bao Dap (1958), Neo (*), Ba Thuy (*) 1959, Kenh Cau (*), Luc Dien (*) 1962, Cau Xe (*) 1966, An Tho (*) 1977.

- Construction of large irrigation and drainage pumping station including: Nhu Quynh (*), Van Giang (*), Van Lam (*) (1962- 1963), Trieu Duong (*) (1964) and other pumping stations such as Van Thai (*), Kenh Vang (*), Mai Xa, La Tien, Co Ngua, Hiep Le ...

It can be affirmed that Bac Hung Hai project is a completed and synchronous project in planning and construction.