【Explanation】Because of the previous heavy rainfall, the water level of Honghu Lake in Hubei kept rising, causing many farmlands and houses to be flooded. On July 12, the flood control emergency response in Honghu City, Hubei Province was upgraded from level II to level I. From the 13th to the 14th, the reporter went to various locations in Honghu City to directly hit the local flood prevention and rescue work under the level I emergency response.
【Explanation】Honghu Lake is located between Honghu City and Jianli City in southern Hubei Province, and is the largest lake in Hubei Province. According to the report of the Honghu City Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, as of 8 a.m. on the 14th, the water level of the digging ditch of Honghu was 27.12 meters, up 0.08 meters, the guaranteed water level exceeded 0.15 meters, and the guaranteed water level on the embankment of Honghu was 95.446 kilometers.
[Explanation] In the section of the Hongsha embankment and the Hongshi embankment in the Hansha village embankment, the local embankment and the militia rushed to build a sub-dike due to the rising water level and the dike being soaked in water. It is understood that once the dangerous section breaks, it will not only inundate more than 20,000 mu of fish ponds, but also endanger the safety of the lives and property of more than 6,000 people in Hansha Village and Zhangfang Village.
[Same period] Sun Jinhua, Deputy Chief Engineer of Water Resources and Lakes Bureau, Honghu City, Hubei Province: Now he is raising the stalks of the fish pond, preparing to irrigate to raise the internal water level, and the height difference from the outer water surface should be as small as possible. The pressure of the water is low, and the pressure of this penetration is also small.
[Commentary] On the afternoon of the 13th, the reporter saw at the embankment section of the Hansha Village of the Hongshi Embankment that the water level difference between the inside and outside of the embankment had reached more than 3 meters. Nearly a thousand local villagers and militia members formed a rescue command team to build a sub-dike and carry earth bags to fill the land. Pit, set up cofferdam to block water, and then irrigate to raise the internal water level and narrow the height difference from the Honghu water level.
[Same period] Guo Weiwei, political commissar of the Ministry of Human Resources and Military Affairs of Honghu City, Hubei Province: (we) carry out the task of strengthening the dike, because Honghu is a plain, it is not easy to take soil, the next step we will adopt excavators and large construction machinery to speed up our construction progress .
[Commentary] On the morning of the 14th, the reporter came to the Yangchai Lake area of Yuanjiawan Village, Luoshan Town, Honghu City. The rising water level caused many houses to be flooded on the first floor, and travel was only inconvenient. Deng Guixian, a villager, runs a convenience store. After Yangchai Lake flooded, she and her husband sometimes had to take a boat trip to meet the villagers who came to buy things.
[Same period] Deng Guixian, a villager in Yangchaihu Village, Luoshan Town, Honghu City, Hubei Province: Our family now sells the previous stocks, which have not been replenished for more than 10 days. Our supermarket is now mainly lacking barreled (purified) water, rice, oil, these essential supplies for life.
[Commentary] At present, vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children, and the disabled in the Yangchai Lake area have been transferred to the resettlement site. At present, the young and strong laborers in the area are urgently repairing the fish ponds to prevent the loss of farmed fish due to continued flooding and to minimize the loss of local fishermen.
[Commentary] The reporter then came to the mass transfer resettlement site in Luoshan Town Primary School. The affected people were having lunch. Everyone's expressions were very relaxed and there was no trace of confusion. In the room at the resettlement site, some affected people are resting, and outside the room, materials donated by the Macao Red Cross are moving away.
[Same period] Chen Guoliang, deputy secretary of the party branch of Yuanjiawan Village, Luoshan Town, Honghu City, Hubei Province, and person in charge of the area of Yangchaihu Village: Now the measures we take are to first ensure the safety of personnel, and first, the weakest households, poor households and other vulnerable The group must be transferred out, and then the old and young are sick and disabled, and are not in the poor households of the minimum living allowance. point.
[Explanation] The 135.55 km long levee of the Honghu Yangtze River main embankment is an important part of the embankment of the Honghu flood diversion and storage area. Although the water level of the Honghu section of the Yangtze River has begun to fall slowly, Honghu City has also made careful arrangements for the flood control work of the Yangtze River embankment.
[Same period] Chen Guotai, Director of the Honghu Branch of the Yangtze River Channel Administration, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province: (every day) 9 am, 1 noon, 6 pm, organize (Honghu City) all cadres and employees and all labor to carry out all-round, no dead ends A large-scale inspection of the net-drawn patrol embankment is carried out (once) every two hours for weak locations such as important facilities, projects under construction, and historical insurance.
【Explanation】According to statistics, as of 19:00 on July 13, six rounds of heavy rainfall caused a total of 922,000 acres of crops in Honghu City, more than 300,000 acres of fish ponds, 42 houses collapsed, 337,000 people were affected 1049 people were resettled, and there were 14919 people in need of emergency life assistance, with a direct economic loss of 1.598 billion yuan.
Dong Xiaobin Guo Xiaoying Zhou Xingliang Hubei Honghu Report
Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]