On February 14-16, in the rivers of the Pripyat basin, the gradual rise of water levels will continue 0.1-0.3 m above the current levels.
In Volyn, more than 13.7 thousand hectares of agricultural land were flooded and flooded. The press service of the Regional Water Resources Office in the Volyn region reported this on Tuesday, February 13.
“On February 13, 2024, more than 13.7 thousand hectares of agricultural land were flooded and flooded in the Volyn region, including 5.2 thousand hectares in Kamen-Kashira district, 8.5 thousand hectares in Kovel district and 246 buildings of utility,” the statement said.
It is reported that emergency teams from Pripyat, Lyubeshevsky and Kovel operational sites are working every day to remove breaches in protective dams, detect and remove beaver harvests; they perform emergency repairs to culverts and water control structures.
“On February 14-16, in the rivers of the Pripyat basin, the gradual increase of water levels will continue 0.1-0.3 m above the current levels (Volyn, Rivne, Zhytomyr regions) with subsequent flooding of floodplains,” the institute reports. .
The office notes that slow flooding of farmland and buildings in riverine settlements along the Pripyat and Stokhod rivers will continue. In the Kovel and Kamen-Kashira districts of the Volyn region, they warned about the level of danger II – orange.
It was previously reported that a national road in Transcarpathia was blocked due to flooding.
We remind you that in January in Transcarpathia the state highway N-09 was blocked due to flooding. In the region, 330 hectares of agricultural land were flooded, mainly in the Borzhava River valley in Khust and Beregovsky districts.
In December last year in Transcarpathia, as a result of winter floods, more than 640 hectares of agricultural land in Beregovo and Khust regions were flooded.
Source: korrespondent
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