The Dam River is connected to the Ban Thach River and is the city’s largest retention pond, which stores water during flood seasons and provides water when dry. Water levels change daily with the tides.
During wartime, the area was once a reed bog, providing cover for freedom fighters and civilians fleeing American “carpet bombing,” napalm and the deadly dioxin-based Agent Orange. At the end of the war, surviving local civilians transformed the bog into farmland filled with rice fields and other crops.