She County has launched a first-level urban flood control response, and many places in Huangshan City, Anhui Province have experienced heavy rainfall
Since the beginning of the plum rain season this year, many places in Huangshan City, Anhui Province have experienced heavy rainfall, causing urban waterlogging and flooding.
On June 20, the Huangshan Meteorological Observatory changed the warning signal for heavy rain to a red one. At 7:00 on the same day, the Municipal Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters upgraded the emergency response level from Level 4 to Level 3, and 5.5 hours later, it upgraded the emergency response level from Level 3 to Level 2. In addition, the Municipal Disaster Reduction and Relief Committee also upgraded the emergency response level from Level 3 to Level 2 for natural disaster relief at 15:00 on the same day.
According to Huangshan Daily, a video dispatch meeting on flood prevention work was held at the city emergency command center on the morning of June 20. Ling Yun, secretary of the municipal party committee, stressed that all localities and relevant departments should attach great importance to it, further strengthen monitoring and early warning, overall dispatch, duty, emergency response, and risk avoidance and transfer, and do a good job in preventing and responding to heavy rainfall with a sense of responsibility of "always worrying about it", and build a solid line of defense to protect the lives and property of the people.
She pointed out that this round of rainfall lasted for a long time, with heavy rainfall and concentrated rainfall in the region. There will be continuous rainfall in the future, and the flood situation is severe. All localities and relevant departments should attach great importance to it, be highly vigilant, resolutely overcome the mentality of paralysis and fluke, deeply understand the complexity and arduousness of flood prevention work, promote the implementation of various flood prevention measures with strict requirements and a practical style, and go all out to do a good job in flood prevention.
She stressed that all levels and departments across the city must ensure the safety of people's lives and property, adhere to the people-first and life-first principle, strengthen bottom-line thinking and risk awareness, decisively evacuate risks, and ensure that people in low-lying areas, old and dangerous houses and other places should be evacuated as much as possible and as early as possible to minimize disaster losses and ensure safe flood season with full preparation.
The total rainfall in Huangshan City from 20:00 on June 18 to 22:00 on June 20. WeChat public account "Anhui Meteorology" map
According to the Anhui Provincial Meteorological Observatory, there was precipitation in Huangshan City from 20:00 on June 18 to 22:00 on June 20. The precipitation in 315 stations exceeded 100 mm, and the precipitation in 161 stations exceeded 250 mm. The maximum precipitation was 523.1 mm in Xucun, She County.
At 10:40 on the 20th, the flood and drought disaster prevention center of the Huizhou District Water Conservancy Bureau of Huangshan City received a telephone notification from the Fengle Reservoir Management Office: the current water level of Fengle Reservoir is 202.52 meters, and the inflow is 350 cubic meters per second. According to the plan, Fengle Reservoir will increase the flood discharge to 400 cubic meters per second at 12:00 on the 20th.
Affected by factors such as heavy rainfall, residents in Huangshan's Tunxi District, She County, Xiuning County and other places posted videos on social platforms to reflect the dangers of floods and waterlogging.
Among them, She County, once the political, economic and cultural center of ancient Huizhou, has launched a level-one flood prevention response in the urban area.
At 18:30 on June 20, the She County Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters initiated a Level 1 urban flood control response. Screenshot of the WeChat public account "Huangshan Radio and Television Station"
At 17:00 on June 20, the She County Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters initiated the second-level urban flood control response, and then activated the second-level urban flood control response one and a half hours later. According to the official report, according to the monitoring of the Municipal Hydrological Bureau, at 18:00 on June 20, the water level in Yuliang had reached 117.21 meters, and it is expected to reach 118.5 meters tonight.
Public data shows that She County has 28 towns, 182 administrative villages, and 10 communities, more than 85% of which are mountainous areas and reservoir areas, with a long history. The county was named a national historical and cultural city by the State Council in 1986, and is known as one of the four best-preserved ancient cities in my country along with Pingyao in Shanxi, Lijiang in Yunnan, and Langzhong in Sichuan. In 2019, it was included in the list of "Millennium Ancient Counties" of China's place name cultural heritage.
