The Road to Recovery
The site of Koh Pur village’s new bridge may still be nothing more than pillars in a dusty crevice in the road, but when the link is finished – some time in December, authorities say – it will be a welcome relief for the village that was all but washed away in last year’s catastrophic floods. When the record floods hit Kampong Cham province, villagers were caught out. The swelling Prek Koh Kor river burst over the road connecting the community to Phnom Penh and, before they knew it, the village’s wooden bridge had been washed away. … Koh Pur, and the beginnings of its new bridge, was the first stop on a press tour by the Asian Development Bank-led Flood Damage Emergency Reconstruction Project yesterday. … A 27-kilometre stretch of road that connects the flood-affected districts of Srey Santhor and Koh Sotin was one of the first rural roads to be completed under the flood damage restoration project, which has 524 kilometres of roads to repair. …
