On the 23rd, the Hubei Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters integrated the basic situation of flood control in Hubei Province and concluded that the recent heavy rainfall occurred in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River No. 3 flood is taking shape, the Three Gorges Reservoir may further increase the discharge, and Jianli Station will exceed the guaranteed water level. increase. The Jingjiang Dike and the dikes below it will keep the high water level for a long time, increasing the risk of danger, and the Yangtze River flood control is facing a very severe situation.
At present, the Three Gorges continues to increase its discharge, and the high water level of the Yangtze River continues. The outflow flow from the Three Gorges Reservoir reached 43,000 cubic meters per second. It is predicted that Jianli Station, an important control station in the Jingjiang section, will break the guaranteed water level on the 24th, reaching a maximum of 37.4 meters, which exceeds the guaranteed water level by 0.17 meters.
The water level of small and medium rivers and lakes is slowly receding. Futou Lake, Honghu Lake and Fushui River continued to exceed the guarantee, and the water level slowly dropped. Liangzihu and Changhu are super alert, and the decline is small. The water levels of super-alert rivers such as Fuyun River, Hanbei River, Yanshui, and Yanshui continued to drop, and the pressure of flood control was eased.
According to Xinhua News Agency, there will be a heavy rain in the northwest, southwest, Jiangnan and Jianghuai in the next four days, and there will be heavy rainstorms in some areas. The Ministry of Water Resources predicted on the 23rd that there will be an obvious flood in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the middle and lower reaches of the main stream and the two lakes will maintain high water levels.
(Changjiang Daily reporter Li Huizi)