Da Nang (VNA) – A delegation of the United States
legislative assistants led by Terra Lynn Sabag, Deputy Chief of Staff for US
Congressman Rick Larsen, visited the location of a dioxin remediation project
in Da Nang airport in the central city of the same name on April 17.
Major General Bui Anh Chung, Deputy Commander of the Air
Defence-Air Force Command, informed his guests on the results of the project.
The project was launched in June 2011, with core activities
comprising of clearing of bombs and explosives.
The six-year project to remediate the environmental
pollution at the airport was jointly implemented by the Vietnamese Ministry of
National Defence and the US International Development Agency (USAID) with a
non-refundable aid of 110 million USD funded by the US Government.
After the second phase wrapped up in November last year, it
successfully detoxified over 90,000 cubic metres of toxic sediments by the
thermal treatment method, while isolating other 50,000 cubic metres of
low-contaminated sediments.
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