Author(s)

S. Asselin, T.C. MacDonald & P.R. Mineart

Abstract

A Taiwanese development group (CT&D), in cooperation with the Vietnamese Government, is planning construction of a new 2,600 hectares city center (Saigon South) to be located along the southern perimeter of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. The project area, which is in the Mekong River flood plain delta, contains a dense network of natural and man-made channels which are connected to the South China Sea located 50 kilometers south of the project. Channels in the project area have poor water quality due to discharges of raw sewage from HCMC and poor circulation of tidal flows. During the initial planning studies, two critical issues to the project development were identified: * construction of the project should not induce high water levels and associated fl

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