China News Service, Yugan, Jiangxi, July 16 Telegram title: "The Great Wall on the Water" at the Poyang Lake: "The water level is receding and you cannot relax for a moment"
Reporter Liu Zhankun Wu Pengquan Liu Lixin
The summer was hot, and the first day came. Wu Weiqing, secretary of the Dongyuan Village branch of Ruihong Town, Yugan County, Jiangxi Province, took the shovel in his hand and led two villagers from the flood control duty station to the inner slope of the Kangshan embankment. Patrol work.
Located on the southeast bank of Poyang Lake and northwest of Yugan County, the Kangshan Embankment has a total length of 36.25 kilometers and protects nearly 200,000 mu of cultivated land and more than 100,000 people. It is one of the key polders in Poyang Lake District, the largest freshwater lake in China. It is the "Great Wall on Water" of Poyang Lake.
Since July, the water level of Poyang Lake has skyrocketed due to continuous heavy rainfall and the Yangtze River backwaters, and all hydrological stations along the coast have exceeded the alarm level. The Kangshan Station also exceeded the historically measured highest water level of 22.43 meters in 1998 at 21:00 on the 11th, reaching 22.44 meters, and the flood control pressure was extremely high.
The reporter visited the Kangshan embankment all the way on the 16th, and saw that there was a sand pile every 100 meters on the embankment road as a flood prevention backup material, and a villager's flood control duty point was set every few hundreds of meters; patrols can be seen everywhere along the embankment The local villagers of the embankment, as well as the officers and soldiers of the troops performing the embankment task.
On July 16, at the Kangshan Embankment in Yugan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, soldiers from a brigade of the 73rd Army of the Army excavated the drainage channel with a shovel on the grassland inside the muddy dam to drain the dam. Come out, so you can reduce the pressure inside the dam and avoid greater danger. Photo by Liu Zhankun
At a flood control duty station, Kong Yongqing, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Datang Township in Yugan County, who was on patrol on this dike, told reporters that at least 12 people from each local village should be stationed in the flood control duty station. Patrol the embankment once an hour.
Kong Yongqing said that if they found a danger while patrolling the embankment, they would take different measures according to the magnitude of the danger. "We will deal with the smaller dangers ourselves, and report to the flood control headquarters when we encounter more difficult situations. The headquarters will send water conservancy experts to the scene for inspection and judgment, and dispatch different types of emergency rescue teams for disposal according to the investigation results."
Five days ago, a dangerous collapse of 110 meters occurred in the Kangshan section of the Kangshan embankment. After 33 hours of continuous fighting between the military and civilians, the danger was dealt with. Although the danger was temporarily lifted, the reporter saw at the landslide site on the 16th that there were still nearly one hundred soldiers carrying out reinforcement operations. Layers of sandbags were blocked on the dam, and the sandbags were also covered with three-color cloth. Photo by Liu Zhankun
At present, the water level of Kangshan Station in Poyang Lake has a downward trend, but the flood control situation is still grim. At 10:00 on the 16th, the water level of Kangshan Station was 21.94 meters, still exceeding the warning water level (19.50 meters) by 2.44 meters.
"Even if the water level is receding, you can't relax for a moment, and you need to be more vigilant." Kong Yongqing said worriedly. The bottom of the dam was soaked for a long time by high water levels, and the outside of the dam was prone to collapse, and it was also prone to dangers such as leakage, landslides, and springs.
Just five days ago, a 110-meter collapse of the Kangshan section of the Kangshan embankment occurred. After 33 hours of continuous fighting between the military and civilians, the danger was dealt with. Although the danger was temporarily lifted, the reporter saw at the landslide site on the 16th that there were still nearly one hundred soldiers carrying out reinforcement operations. Layers of sandbags were blocked on the dam, and the sandbags were also covered with three-color cloth.
Continue to drive from the responsibility section of Kangshan Dike Datang Township, the reporter from China News Agency in the Dongyuan Village Responsibility Section of Ruihong Town happened to meet a group of soldiers who were digging a drainage ditch with local villagers inside the dike.
On the long Kangshan embankment, an old man with a "flood control emergency" armband walking on the road to patrol the embankment. Photo by Liu Zhankun
"The task we are performing now is to dig drainage channels to allow the water seeping out of the dam, so as to reduce the pressure inside the dam and avoid greater dangers. We will also backfill the ditch with cobblestones to prevent the water from taking away the dam. Dirt." said an army soldier named Zhu Jie.
At noon, on the long Kangshan embankment, an old man wearing a "flood control emergency" armband walked on the road to patrol the embankment. Looking at the vast Poyang Lake outside the embankment, his eyes were still a bit nervous and worried. This was the tenth day of the Kangshan embankment entering a state of emergency in flood control. (Finish)