Feature 丨 More than 26 West Lakes are stored in water, the 16th "water enters and people retreat" in the Mengwa flood storage area
The water came too fast.
Before the opening of the Wangjiaba Gate of the "First Gate of Huaihe River", Liu Qin, a resident in the Mengwa flood storage area, rushed to grab the edamame. Less than a cent was recovered in an acre of land; Zhou Zuocai, a large fish farmer, was too late to salvage, and seeing the flood washed away He left more than 3 million fry.
This is the 16th time that the Mengwa flood storage area located in Funan County, Anhui Province has been used for storage and retention of floodwater for the 16th time and 13 years ago. At 8:31:52 on July 20, the Wangjiaba Gate opened, and the rushing flood water rushed to the 180.4 square kilometers Mengwa flood storage area. In the flood storage area, 195,000 people in four townships were affected.
About 76 hours and 30 minutes later, Wangjiaba closed the gate, and the entire flood storage area stored 375 million cubic meters of water, equivalent to the storage capacity of 26 West Lakes (14 million cubic meters). The water level of the Huai River dropped from 29.75 meters before the flood diversion to 28.28 meters. .
The Wangjiaba sluice of the Huaihe River opened for flood discharge. The pictures in this article are all the surging news reporter Zhao Siwei
In the flood storage area, large tracts of crops and breeding ponds submerged by the flood.
In recent years, the local area has gradually formed a scale through investment promotion and development of adaptive agriculture. This flood has tested the confidence of large farmers in the future and the wisdom of local government departments in solving problems.
"Water enters and people retreat, water retreats and others enter." Jiang Ning, the deputy county magistrate of Funan County, said that the road of adaptive agriculture will definitely continue, and the local government is taking measures to reduce losses.
There is a vast ocean in the flood storage area, and the flood has flooded the road to the outside world.
Transfer and grab
On the evening of July 19, a hurried notification came from the loudspeaker of the Zhuangtai Center in Zhengtaizi: "The gate is about to open, come to the Zhuangtai, put things away."
The village cadres spoke quickly and quickly. The 51-year-old Liu Qin stood in the yard and listened with his head up two or three times before reacting.
"It's a bad thing." She squatted in her heart, quickly picked up the tools, and told her 9-year-old grandson not to run around with her sister, trotting all the way to the edamame field under the village platform, pulling and pulling to grab it.
At this time, the bottom of the Zhuang platform was full of people's heads, and the light from the flashlights cut the night, breaking the original tranquility together with the noise. Most people robbed the edamame, and some moved furniture and electrical appliances from the temporary house under the farm to the top.
Although during the day the villagers have been rumoring that the gate may be opened for flood release, it has been 13 years since the last flood storage. Liu Qin and others have long been accustomed to the "standby" state of the flood storage area, and they did not pay much attention to it.
The gate to be opened refers to the Wangjiaba gate not far southwest of Zhengtaizi.
The Huai River is flooded. On January 10, 1953, the Wangjiaba flood gate at the junction of the Huai River, Hong River and Bailu River, located at the junction of Henan and Anhui provinces, started construction and was completed on July 14 of the same year.
This gate and the Caotaizi sluice on the lower reaches of the Huai River form a flood storage area of 180.4 square kilometers, named "Mengwa flood storage area". If the Huai River's water situation is urgent, this "pocket" will temporarily "place" the Huai River's incoming water.
The Mengwa flood storage area is one of the most frequently used flood storage areas in the mainstream of the Huai River. It is located on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Huai River, facing the Huai River in the south, surrounded by water.
Wangjiaba Gate has also become the demarcation point between the upper and lower reaches of the Huaihe River and is called the "first gate of the Huaihe River in a thousand miles". Since its completion, the Wangjiaba sluice has been opened for flood diversion 15 times in 12 years, the most recent being in 2007.
In the Mengwa flood storage area, 195,000 people in the four townships of Wangjiaba, Laoguan, Caoji, and Gaotai in Funan County live in 131 villages and 6 Baozhuang villages.
Zhengtaizizhuangtai, where Liu Qin is located, is one of them, where the villagers of the three production teams in Liying Village live. In the long course of "fighting water", a settlement area with low surroundings and high bases in the middle was built in the area, "Zhuangtai", which resembles an inverted bowl. "Bowl", in turn, is called "Baozhuangxu".
"The transfer will be completed before 3 am on the 20th, and no one will be left below 28.5 meters in the flood storage area", the instruction came, and the order was issued: the house in the dangerous area is closed and locked, and no one is stranded; Baozhuangxu no longer has one person to leave ; Zhuangtai no longer has one person leaving; no more production and living staff in the flood storage depression.
On July 19th, like Zheng Taizi, the other over 100 residents of Zhuangtai experienced a tense night.
Large tracts of flooded villages in Laoguan Township.
"One by one, the call to lock the door tells you to go home and move quickly." Li Xiaofeng, deputy head of Laoguan Township, remembered the process of transferring property and grabbing at that time still fresh. She recalled that during the day of the 19th, considering the rapid rise in the water level at the Wangjiaba gate, Laoguan Township had already started to notify the villagers below 28.5 meters to move out. The township cadres, village cadres, volunteer villagers, and armed police officers and soldiers who came to support were divided into groups to help the villagers move things from house to house.
Worried that the villagers ran back to get things, the village locked the door of the house they moved out.
Tao Shiyou, a 67-year-old villager from Laoguan Village, has lived in an old house on the side of the Huai River embankment for generations. His son built a two-story building in a low-lying area more than 300 meters away from the old house. He was renovated and lived in four or five years ago. When receiving the transfer notice, he was living alone in the old house, and his wife was away with his son and daughter-in-law.
On that day, the refrigerators, bicycles, tables, and tricycles in the son's house were carried one by one to the old house. He had used a pair of mottled wooden chairs for more than ten years, but he was carried away because of reluctance.
Villagers doing business in low-lying areas have more goods.
With years of savings, 42-year-old Xu Yinling and her husband opened a supermarket of more than 1,500 square meters. After receiving the transfer notice, she used an unused storefront house on the street of Laoguanxiang by her brother as a temporary warehouse, and moved it with relatives one by one. "Thinking about how much you can move."
Looking at the goods worth more than 3 million yuan, Xu Yinling kept her hands and feet, too late to eat and rest. Trip after trip, more than 300 meters away, Xu Yinling couldn't remember how many times she repeated it. When she saw an empty car while walking on the road, she and her husband stopped and asked for help.
"I'm too tired, thinking about sweet potatoes, but I don't want them, but they still carry them." Xu Yinling has been expressing gratitude these days. There were dozens of people who helped, many of them young armed police officers and soldiers. She still remembered that one of the elderly uncles came to help, carrying a bag of rice and leaving, leaving only her back.
During the flood storage period, Xu Yinling's business did not stop. At 3 pm on July 22, 42-year-old Xu Yinling was sorting the goods piled from inside to outside the door. Boxes of dairy products, scattered bottled beverages, and various daily chemical products "squeeze" the house so that there is only one passage that can only be passed by. At the door, the dusty cash register was plugged in again, showing that someone had just bought a few items.
Xu Yinling grabbed the transferred supermarket goods from the low-lying place, and the pile was full.
According to the official information provided by Funan County, in the flood storage area, as of 3 a.m. on the 20th, a total of 2017 people have been transferred to low-lying areas, and there are countless types of goods.
The rapidly rising water of the Huai River
While residents are busy protecting their property, the water level in Wangjiaba is rising.
Whether the Wangjiaba gate will be opened and the Mengwa flood storage area will be opened depends on the rainfall, water and flood conditions in the Huai River Basin. Behind the "flood diversion or not" is a game with water.
Funan County, where the Mengwa Flood Storage Area is located, is located on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Huai River, covering an area of 1801 square kilometers, and a flood protection area of 527 square kilometers, accounting for 29.3%.
Affected by geographical factors, floods in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River in mountainous areas often come in large amounts, violently, and quickly, due to geographical factors. As a result, flood disasters are prone to occur frequently and flood prevention tasks are difficult.
This time the water came more quickly. According to a local official, compared with the flood storage area opened in 2007, the incoming water has risen rapidly, and the response time for people in the flood storage area is relatively short.
In the flood storage area, a road has been level with the flood and is about to be flooded.
Xiao You, director of the Huaihe Water Conservancy Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources and executive deputy commander of the Huaihe Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, introduced that the Huaihe River water regime this year is quite special. Unlike the past, it was mainly affected by the rapid rise in the upper reaches. As a result, the main stream and tributaries of the Huai River are superimposed, and the middle part of it is supported, and the water level rises rapidly.
At 22:48 on July 17, Wangjiaba rose to 27.50 meters, forming the No. 1 flood of the Huai River in 2020.
According to the aforementioned official sources, at about 17:00 on July 19, they received a notice from the provincial government that they expected Wangjiaba to reach the guaranteed water level of 29.30 meters in one day, but at about 19:20 two hours later, they received another 3 in the morning. Notice of evacuation before the point.
The "Huaihe Flood Defense Plan" formulated by the National Defense Administration mentioned that when the water level of Wangjiaba on the mainstream of the Huaihe River is lower than 29.3 meters, the river will be used for flooding; it will reach 29.3 meters and continue to rise, depending on the rain, water conditions and engineering conditions, it will be used in a timely manner Flood storage in the Mengwa flood storage area reduces the water level of Wangjiaba.
The opening of the Mengwa flood storage area can reduce the flood peaks of the Huai River and ensure the safety of flood control of the Lianghuai energy base, the Beijing-Jiulong and Beijing-Shanghai traffic arteries, the Huaibei levee and large and medium-sized cities along the Huaihe River. However, the flood storage area will not be used as a last resort.
From the night of July 19 to the early morning of the 20th, the main leaders of the National Defense Administration, Anhui Province, and Fuyang City were all staring at the rising water level figures in Wangjiaba, and the frequency of reporting water levels and flow was also compressed to once every 6 minutes.
In the Wangjiaba Hydrological Station where many eyes were gathered, the lights remained on that night. Zhang Jiaying, director of the Wangjiaba Gate Management Office of the Huaihe River Administration Bureau in Anhui Province, observes the changes in water level with lights. That night, he went to the viewing platform to take a look every half an hour.
The numbers kept beating.
At 4 am on the 20th, the water level of Wangjiaba Hydrological Station was 29.54 meters; at 5 am, the water level was 29.56 meters; at 6:36, the water level rose to 29.66 meters, which was 0.22 meters higher than the water level of the last flood diversion. At 7 o'clock, the water level rose to 29.66 meters. At 8 o'clock, the National Defense Directorate decided to open the gates for flood diversion and activate the Mengwa flood storage area.
At 8:31:52, in accordance with the dispatch orders of the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Huaihe Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, Wangjiaba opened the gate. At that time, the water level was 29.75 meters, the 13 holes were fully opened, and the flow rate was 1,560 cubic meters per second.
The actual flood diversion water level exceeds the guaranteed water level by 0.45 meters. "It's already very dangerous. If the water rises, it may overflow the gate." said a staff member of the Wangjiaba Gate Management Office.
The billowing Huai River rushes through 13 gate holes, gradually devouring large tracts of land in the flood storage area.
The flood propagation speed in the Mengwa flood storage area is closely related to the sub-flood level and gate opening. Under normal circumstances, the flood propagation speed in Mengwa District takes about 7-10 hours from Wangjiaba Gate to Laoguan Township, 15-20 hours to Caoji Town, and 30-40 hours to Gaotai Township.
Lake Center Zhuangtai and Dikemen
On the morning of July 21st, Liu Qin robbed the edamame from the ground to dry it on the balcony of the courtyard. Sitting on a small bench, he peeled the pods of the edamame by hand, and put the young beans in a bowl.
On the stage of Zhengtaizizhuang, Liu Qin was peeling the edamame that he harvested, and only one acre of land was recovered.
She was the only one at home to take care of her grandchildren. On the night of July 19, she recovered less than one acre of edamame, and the rest was flooded. At that time, she was still thinking about charging more, but approaching the latest transfer time at 3 a.m. on the 20th, the village officials urged them to the village platform one by one.
After the gate was opened, the flood rose rapidly, and the fish and shrimp ponds, corn fields, edamame fields, and rice fields around Zhuangtai disappeared. An asphalt road leading to the streets of Wangjiaba Town quickly disappeared, leaving two rows of submerged treetops. Standing on the platform and looking from a distance, you can see the top of a tombstone whose graveyard has not been submerged.
According to information provided by the Funan County Party Committee and Government, after the flood struck, 77 lake centers in the 131 villages in the flood storage area became "isolated islands", and the transfer of people and materials in the villages required boats.
After the Wangjiaba gate was opened for flood diversion, 77 lake centers were formed in the 180.4 square kilometers Mengwa flood storage area.
The reporter saw in the villages and towns in the flood storage area that in order to ensure the life and medical needs of the villagers on the platform of Huxinzhuang, the People’s Liberation Army, armed police, militia, fire rescue, etc. all set up “temporary docks” at suitable locations, and transfer personnel and Supplies.
The flood was besieged and 77 lake centers were formed, and the transport of personnel and materials could only rely on ships.
At about 16:30 on July 22, officers and soldiers of the Fuyang Detachment of the Armed Police Anhui Provincial Corps, who were helping the Laoguan Township Health Center to deliver medical supplies, received a message from Kanglouzhuangtai for help. A male villager in his 50s had relapsed with liver cirrhosis. , Has been confused.
After receiving the request for help, the armed police officers and soldiers quickly drove the assault boat to turn around, rushed to the Zhuangtai where the patient was, wrapped the man in a thick blanket, and carefully carried it onto the assault boat. At 18:00, the patient was sent to the Baozhuangwei wharf and transferred to the waiting ambulance 120.
The reporter saw on the scene that when he was lifted from the assault boat, the man had a sallow face, his teeth were closed, and big beads of sweat shed from his forehead.
Officers and soldiers of the Fuyang Detachment of the Armed Police Anhui Provincial Corps came to support.
When the "isolated island" is not "lonely", the residents on the platform can only wait.
At Huxinzhuangtai, the local government dispatched a working group in the village to mobilize medical forces from the county into the village to reassure the masses, collect various needs, and solve the problems of medical treatment and epidemic prevention.
At 10 o'clock on July 21st, Li Tongshi, a cadre of the Funan County Natural Resources Bureau with the badge of the "Working Group in Zhuangtai" on his chest, received the information from the Funan County People's Hospital and Wangjiaba Town at the temporary "pier" Two medical staff stationed in Zhuangtai from the hospital. He took them to measure the blood pressure of the grandfather and aunt at the Zhuangtai pavilion, while posting health and epidemic prevention leaflets. The leaflet was printed with cartoons and texts of "drinking water hygiene, food hygiene, personal hygiene".
After visiting a number of Zhuangtai in the center of the lake, the reporter found that even though it has become an "island", the running water and electricity for life on the Zhuangtai run smoothly. The fruits and vegetables grown in front of many villagers’ houses became “war preparation materials”.
Zheng Jichao and his wife lived in Zhuangtai for a long time in the ancient years. They have experienced 15 floods. In order to record the changes of Zhengtaizi Zhuangtai and the important events of the clan, the first floor of their house was arranged as the "Zhengtaizitai History Museum".
Seeing that Zhuangtai was besieged by the flood, Zheng Jichao stood on a high place on the east side of Zhuangtai, feeling that it is much better than before when there was flooding. "The base of Zhuangtai is high, at least people will not flood it." He told reporters that before Zhuangtai There are still people living in the low-lying areas. Whenever they encounter a water person, they will run to the Zhuangtai, but the Zhuangtai was also not high-reinforced at the time, and water and power cuts were commonplace. "Can't sleep at night, I'm always afraid of water coming."
The reporter learned from the Funan County Party Committee and Government that in 2018, Funan County withdrew and merged Zhuangtai with less than 200 people, and then upgraded Zhuangtai's water, electricity, and Internet infrastructure. Each Zhuangtai built small squares, supporting public toilets, and rural drinking water safety projects to achieve full coverage of Mengwa townships according to local conditions. In addition, domestic garbage and sewage treatment have also been effectively treated.
In addition to ensuring the living order of the villagers in Zhuangtai, Huxin, inspection of the river embankment has also become an important task for the local area after the flood gate is opened.
At about 21 o'clock on July 21, Caotai Village, Gaotai Township in the flood storage area.
67-year-old Chen Xiaorong leaned his shovel on the pole of the pavilion, took out a lump of tobacco from his body, twisted it, put it in the smoking pot, and started smoking. He wears a red armband with the words "flood prevention and rescue" on his arm and a miner's lamp on his head. He will patrol the river embankment with other villagers overnight.
Chen Xiaorong, a 67-year-old dike guard in Caotai Village.
Chen Xiaorong recalled the previous flood storage scene, picked up the smoking pot and knocked on the side, with some emotion. "Move up four or five times, every time I toss people." Later, there was a new house on the Zhuangtai, and there was no need to live in low-lying places. Chen Xiaorong was less worried about flood storage. "My ancestors lived here and lived on water." He felt that it was better to flood the crops than to wash people away.
In the Mengwa flood storage area, the Caotai sluice in the southeast is responsible for draining the Huai River. When the water level of the Huaihe River drops and the water level in the flood storage area is higher than the water level of the Huaihe River, the sluice gate will be opened and the water will return to the Huaihe River.
The Caotai Sluice Gate is named after the village and is just beside Chen Xiaorong's village.
Caotai Retreat Gate, the Huaihe River on the left and the flood storage area on the right. When the water level of the Huai River drops, the sluice gate opens and the water in the flood storage area returns to the Huai River.
"As soon as the toad peeed, it was flooded here." Chen Xiaorong introduced that Caotai Village is located in the lowest depression of the flood storage area, nearly 5 meters lower than Wangjiaba Gate. It floods the most and the water recedes the slowest. Before the flood subsided, their villagers, militiamen, and village cadres had to change shifts day and night to inspect the river embankment. Caotai Village has a 6.8-kilometer embankment, and each section is guarded by people. One section is still in Linxian County, but the people over there are unable to make it through, so they help to patrol the embankment.
Like many villages in the flood storage area, Caotai Village does not have many young people, and the heavy responsibility of patrolling the embankment falls on the elderly and women. "Where to go? Behind is home." Chen Xiaoyou looked at the water of the Huai River in front of him, and said with his head down.
On the evening of July 21, some villagers in Caotai Village, Gaotai Township, inspected the embankment.
Along the Huai dike and flood storage area dike case, at intervals, you can see militiamen and villagers wearing red armbands with the words "flood prevention and rescue" and holding shovels, just like Chen Xiaorong, guarding the dike day and night.
The reporter was informed that, based on the water level of Wangjiaba Hydrological Station on the Huai River, when the water level of Wangjiaba reaches 26.00 meters, the Mengwa River and dike management personnel will step up inspections; when the water level reaches 27.50 meters, the “first-line migrant workers” in Mengwa will be on the embankment, every kilometer. 10-20 people on the embankment; 1 meter (28.50 meters) above the warning water level, Mengwa second line migrant workers on the embankment, 20-30 people per kilometer of the embankment; at the guaranteed water level of 29.30 meters, Mengwa third line migrant workers on the embankment, 30- per kilometer of the embankment 50 people.
The local organization forces a net-style inspection day and night on the Huai River embankment and the embankment in the flood storage area.
The flood will not recede, the danger will not be lifted, day and night levee inspections will become the norm.
Large growers suffer more
In the flood storage area, industrial development is restricted, and the local area has explored ways of adaptive agriculture, and develops suitable characteristic agriculture according to the geographical environment of the flood storage area. Around 2016, Funan County began to attract investment after the land transfer, and began large-scale farming of fish, shrimp and crabs, and planting of specialty agricultural products such as lotus root, gorgon, and water white. The opening of the sluice gates to release floods this time caused great damage to large planters and breeders.
Gu Hongshou from Laoguan Township had been planting lotus root and gorgon in Hubei before. In October 2016, he saw the Funan local government engage in agricultural investment, and he returned to his hometown and village to sign a planting contract to plant lotus root and gorgon on a large scale. Before flood storage, he planted more than 1,300 acres of lotus root and gorgon, most of which were lotus roots.
The planting of lotus root in the flood storage area has a large investment, and the cost of an acre of land is about 3,500 yuan. In previous years, after removing the wages of workers, Gu Hongshou could earn an average of 2,000 to 3,000 yuan per acre. The planted lotus root and Gorgon will be sold to Harbin, Liaoning and other places. "In the past few years, after the acquisition by the Guangdong boss, it will be sent to Japan, Singapore and other places." When it comes to the previous situation, he is a little proud.
In late July, the lotus roots were basically mature. If it weren't for this flood, Gu Hongshou would wait another ten days to dig and sell all the lotus roots.
After hearing the news that floods might be stored, he wondered if he could grab some, so he dug for a day with two workers at the planting base, and more than two thousand catties of lotus roots were transported to the market for sale. "Dig as much as you can, otherwise it's all in vain." Gu Hongshou said.
After the Wangjiaba gate opened on July 20, Gu Hongshou looked at the flooded plantation base, helpless. According to his preliminary calculation, the flood caused nearly six million losses. As far as he knows, his colleagues in the village are all facing the same situation.
In order to maintain his living, Gu Hongshou currently wholesales lotus roots from other growers and sells them in the market.
On the day when Wangjiaba gate opened, aquaculture farmer Yu Qihui stood on the embankment in the village’s safe area, watching his fish ponds instantly submerged by the flood, and muttering, “It’s all gone, there’s no way”.
Yu Qihui had been contracting fish ponds to engage in aquaculture in Zhejiang before. Last year he felt that his hometown had developed better in recent years, so he chose to return to his hometown for aquaculture. He and another villager jointly contracted more than 170 acres of land, where fish, shrimps, crabs and other aquatic animals were raised. "There are many kinds of fish, including catfish, herring, silver carp, etc., which cost tens of thousands of catties." Yu Qihui calculated that in winter, dealers would buy his farming results.
At around 5 pm on July 19, he received news that floods might be stored. Afterwards, the village convened the villagers living in Tangkou and held a brief meeting to inform them to move the things that need to be moved at home as soon as possible and to evacuate to a safe area in time.
Yu Qihui thought that the gate would be opened soon and it would be too late to transfer the fish and shrimp in the fish pond. After dinner that day, the family transported the necessary daily necessities and feed for fish and shrimp to a safe area in the village.
“It takes time to catch shrimps under the net, and the feed is useless when it meets water. It must be moved.” During this flood storage, all the fry that Yu Qihui put twice last year and the beginning of this year were washed away by the floods, causing about 1 million yuan. Economic losses.
Zhou Zuocai, an out-of-towner from China, encountered a difficult situation in Funan that he had never encountered before.
Zhou Zuocai is from Wenzhou, Zhejiang. He has been fond of aquaculture since he was a child. Before that, he worked in Yueyang, Hunan for several years. In 2018, at the invitation of the Wangjiaba Town Government, he came to the town to contract more than 400 acres of fish ponds, mainly raising salmon and the "four major home fish", totaling more than three million fish.
Before opening the gate, the village director informed him that it might open the gate. There are only two of them in the family, but the accumulated feed is tens of thousands of catties. Considering that there is not enough manpower, the village sent a few young people to help him move part of the fish feed to the cart, but fishing takes time. Need to go offline many times, too late.
Most of his life's hard work was "washed away" by the flood, and Zhou Zuocai sighed with weakness.
The fish pond contracted by Zhou Zuocai, taken in the winter of 2019.
In recent days, he has been so busy that he has not had time to calculate the damage caused by the flood. In his view, these situations are beyond his control, and human safety is the most important. "If you can't be worried, just feel bored in your heart."
The future of the flood storage area
After 76 hours and 28 minutes of flood diversion, at 13:00 on July 23, the 13 gates of Wangjiaba Gate began to slowly close. Twenty minutes later, the gate was closed, and the water level of the Huai River dropped from 29.75 meters before the flood diversion to 28.28 meters.
At 13:20 on July 23, Wangjiaba Gate was completely closed, and the water level of the Huai River dropped from 29.75 meters before the flood diversion to 28.28 meters.
According to statistics from the Wangjiaba Gate Management Office of the Huaihe River Administration Bureau in Anhui Province, the total flood storage capacity is 375 million cubic meters during 76 hours of opening the gate. This amount of water is equivalent to the storage of 26 West Lake.
Although the gate is closed, the flood storage area is still a vast ocean.
Gaotai Township Organization Officer and Caotai Village cadre Chen Suo told reporters that according to previous flood storage experience, opening the sluice gate does not mean that the water in the flood storage area will quickly recede. The lower the water, the slower the drainage will be. It takes at least ten days to retreat.
More than 150 acres of shrimp and 10 acres of fish were washed away by the floods. The large local farmer, Fu Deng, took stock of losses with his family at home in recent days. A few years ago, he borrowed money from relatives to engage in aquaculture, planning to do a big job. I just sold a crop of shrimp last year. I wanted to sell shrimp and fish at the end of September and the end of this year, but the flood suddenly stunned him.
"I don't know if I will continue to do it in the future." Like many large breeding and planting farmers, Fu Deng's development of production in the flood storage area itself considered the possible risks, but no one thought that the flood would come so soon.
More than 150 acres of shrimp and 10 acres of fish were washed away by the floods. The large local farmer, Fu Deng, took stock of losses with his family at home in recent days. For the future breeding road, I am a little confused.
After the completion of the Mengwa flood storage area, it has become one of the flood storage areas most frequently used in the mainstream of the Huai River.
Since its completion, the Mengwa flood storage area has been in succession in 1954, 1956, 1960, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1982 (twice), 1983, 1991 (twice), 2003 (Twice). There were 15 detention floods in 2007, about once every 5 years.
In addition, in recent years, more young people have gone out to work, and the far-reaching influence of left-behind children and "hollow villages" has become increasingly prominent.
"You can't rely on being poor." Funan County Party Committee Member and Propaganda Minister Yue Lei told reporters that the Mengwa flood storage area is a deeply impoverished area along the Huaihe River. It is the county with the worst natural conditions, the deepest level of poverty, the greatest pressure to escape poverty, and the probability of returning to poverty. The highest focus area.
In the past two years, investment promotion has resulted in the co-cultivation of rice and shrimp, fish, crayfish, lotus root, and gorgon. The flood caused great losses to large-scale breeding and growers. Jiang Ning, deputy head of Funan County, said that the government is currently doing nuclear disaster work to lay the foundation for subsequent financial compensation.
The Paper found that after the "Interim Measures for Compensation for the Use of Flood Storage and Detention Areas" was promulgated and implemented in 2000, the state compensated for the use of national flood storage and detention areas in the Yangtze and Huai River basins, including the Mengwa Flood Storage Area.
In addition, on June 7, 2002, the Anhui Provincial Government promulgated the "Interim Measures for Compensation for the Use of Flood Storage and Detention Areas", which stipulates that residents in flood storage and detention areas shall not only receive flood storage and detention compensation in accordance with the aforementioned Measures and Rules, but also in accordance with The relevant state regulations enjoy the same government assistance and social donations as victims in other flood-hit areas.
The aforementioned "Measures" stipulate that crops, professional breeding and economic forests are compensated at 70%, 50%, and 50% of the average annual output value of the previous three years. There are also relevant compensation standards for housing, family agricultural production machinery and draught animals, and the main household durable consumer goods.
However, 13 years have passed since the last flood storage. The level of social development has already undergone tremendous changes. Large-scale planting and breeding industries have also formed in the flood storage area. Compensation for large farmers needs to be reconsidered.
"Water enters and people retreat, and water retreats." Jiang Ning said that the road of adaptive agriculture will definitely continue. On the one hand, the county prepares special funds to provide discounted and interest-free support to large farmers and encourage agricultural insurance; On the other hand, the county plans to purchase a batch of mung beans and vegetables, and plant them in time where the water recedes to reduce losses.
The future development of adaptive agricultural projects that have formed a scale is a test of the wisdom of the local government.
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