The National Flood Control Administration has launched a Level 4 response for flood prevention, with 189 rivers experiencing floods exceeding the warning level since the start of the flood season
On the morning of July 3rd, the General Office of the People's Republic of China, together with the China Meteorological Administration, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the Ministry of Natural Resources, held a special conference on flood control and drought relief, to assess the development and changes of flood conditions, and to video dispatch provinces such as Liaoning, Jilin, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, and Shaanxi to supervise the prevention and response to heavy rainfall. On the evening of July 3rd, the Ministry of Emergency Management held a special meeting with the National General Office of Flood Control to coordinate point-to-point operations in Henan Province. It was required to closely monitor changes in flood conditions, strengthen monitoring, forecasting and early warning, scientifically assess risks, strengthen responsibility measures, and make every effort to prevent and respond to prominent risks such as mountain floods, geological disasters, floods in small and medium-sized rivers, and urban and rural waterlogging.
According to the National Emergency Plan for Flood Control and drought Relief and relevant regulations, the State General Administration of Flood Control launched a four-level emergency response for flood control in Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other provinces at 13:00 on July 3. On the same day, the State General Office of Prevention and Control sent a working group to Henan to guide flood control and disaster relief work. Henan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou to start a four-level emergency response to flood control, Inner Mongolia to maintain a four-level emergency response to drought.
According to the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Emergency Plan and relevant regulations, the National Flood Control Administration launched a Level 4 emergency response for Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other provinces at 13:00 on July 3. On the same day, the General Office of the People's Republic of China dispatched a working group to Henan to guide flood control and disaster relief work. Henan, Chongqing, Sichuan, and Guizhou have launched a four level emergency response for flood control, while Inner Mongolia has maintained a four level emergency response for drought resistance.
Over-alarm floods have occurred in 189 rivers since the flood season.
According to the prediction of the meteorological department, from July 3 to 4, there will be heavy to rainstorm from Sichuan Basin to Huanghuai River, and there will be heavy rainstorm locally, accompanied by short-term heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, gales and other severe convective weather. Heavy to rainstorm occurs in parts of central and southern Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, eastern and southern Henan, northern and western Hubei, southern Shaanxi, Chongqing, eastern Sichuan, northwestern Guizhou, northeastern Yunnan and coastal areas in southwestern Guangdong.
189 rivers have experienced over warning floods since the start of the flood season
Relevant departments are fully committed to ensuring flood control safety
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources that as of July 3rd, a total of 189 rivers have experienced floods exceeding the warning level since the start of the flood season.
The Ministry of Water Resources will continue to pay attention to the process of heavy rainfall, strengthen on-duty and consultation, research and judgment, and guide relevant localities to do a good job in monitoring, forecasting and early warning, water project scheduling, reservoir safety during floods, mountain flood disaster prevention, and drought relief and disaster reduction, and make every effort to ensure the safety of flood control and urban and rural residents Water supply safety.
From 8:00 on July 2nd to 14:00 on July 3rd, some areas in southwestern Gansu, northeastern Sichuan, southern Shaanxi, central and western Henan, central and northern Hubei, eastern and northern Anhui, most of Jiangsu, Guangxi Fangchenggang, and Yangjiang in Guangdong received 30-70 millimeters of rainfall. Affected by it, 12 small and medium-sized rivers, including the Luoxi River, Youxi River, and Zhaba River, tributaries of the Jialing River in Sichuan, the Heishuitan River, a tributary of the Jialing River in Chongqing, the Youshui River, a tributary of the Han River in Shaanxi, and the Fenghe River, a tributary of the Wei River, have experienced over warning floods, with a maximum over warning amplitude of 0.03-1.08 meters. Among them, the Luoxi River has exceeded the protection limit by 0.58 meters.
At present, the southern rain belt swings from the north to the south of the Yangtze River, and concentrated heavy rainfall occurs in some areas, and the rainfall areas are mostly overlapping, which is very easy to form local floods. The Yangtze River Defense Headquarters and the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources are aimed at provinces where local heavy rainfall may occur. At 12:00 on July 3, flood prevention level IV emergency response and flood prevention level IV emergency response were launched respectively. Next, the Yangtze River Committee will further strengthen flood and drought prevention, and scientifically dispatch the Three Gorges Reservoir, Jinsha River Cascade Reservoir, Danjiangkou Reservoir, etc. to block floods and cut peaks and shift peaks, so as to reduce the pressure on downstream flood control.
It is predicted that from 8:00 on July 3 to 8:00 on July 4, there will be heavy to rainstorm in parts of the southeast of northwest China, the northeast of southwest China, most of the Yellow River and Huaihe River and the northern part of western Hubei, among which there will be heavy rainstorm in parts of southeast Sichuan, northern Chongqing, southwest Henan and southeast Shandong. Under its influence, it is expected that Chishui River, a tributary of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Jialing River, and Han River, a tributary of the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Weihe River and Iluo River, a tributary of the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, Shaying River and Hongru River, a tributary of the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, Yihe River, Shuhe River and other major rivers in the Yishu Surabaya system will have obvious water rising processes, and excessive flood may occur in small and medium-sized rivers in the rainstorm area.
From June 18th to 26th, the Pearl River Basin experienced the longest rainfall process this year, the widest range of influence, and the highest intensity. The Pearl River Water Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources sent more than 3200 early warning messages in a timely manner to remind relevant localities to do a good job in flood prevention, reservoir safety during floods, and mountain flood disaster prevention; scientifically implement the joint operation of reservoir groups, and dispatch 1.739 billion cubic meters of flood storage in the upper and middle reaches of the Xijiang River. At present, the main rivers in the Pearl River Basin are in the stage of receding water, and the flood control situation tends to be stable.
The Ministry of Water Resources will continue to pay attention to the heavy rainfall process, strengthen duty monitoring and consultation, guide relevant places to do a good job in monitoring, forecasting and early warning, water engineering scheduling, safe flood control of reservoirs, mountain flood disaster prevention, and drought resistance and disaster reduction, and fully ensure flood control safety and water supply safety for urban and rural residents.
