China News Service, Yichang, July 10 (Reporter Guo Xiaoying) The Hydrological Bureau of the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission upgraded at 18 o'clock on the 9th to release orange warnings for floods in the Yangtze River from Chenglingji to Nanjing, Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake and Shuiyang River. The relevant units and the public are invited to pay attention to prevention.
Affected by the recent heavy rainfall, there are many over-alarm sites in the Yangtze River Basin, with a wide range. The main stream and several main tributaries have numbered floods. The main control stations of the lower reaches of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Jianting Lake, Dongting Lake, and Poyang Lake have been over-alarmed, and the water level Will continue to rise. It is expected that there will be continuous heavy rainfall in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the next two days. From the 10th to the 15th, there will be a mobile heavy rainfall process from the northwest to the southeast of the Yangtze River upstream to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
With the consent of the Ministry of Water Resources, the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission dispatched the Three Gorges Reservoir to reduce the outflow to 25,000 cubic meters per second from the 10th, further reducing the pressure on flood control in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. (Finish)