China News Service, Enshi, July 25 (Dong Xiaobin, Guo Xiaoying) Affected by the floods caused by the previous continuous heavy rainfall, nearly 50,000 residents in Enshi City, Hubei Province had power outages and water cuts. The Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture held a press conference on the 25th to announce that as of July 24, the power supply and communications in Enshi urban area have basically been restored, and the urban water plant has restored part of its production capacity and started to supply water in time intervals.
Workers in the water plant in Enshi City are cleaning the air-water anti-green washing filter. Photo by Dong Xiaobin
The water plant restores part of its production capacity and starts water supply
Flooding caused damage to 40 secondary water supply booster pumping stations in Enshi City. Enshi Sewage Treatment Plant was flooded for about 12 hours, and various equipment and facilities were damaged and unable to produce. Since then, the landslide in Mazhe Village caused the water turbidity of Qingjiang River to be too high, the main water plant in the urban area was unable to produce, and more than 85% of the urban area was without water.
After the disaster, the Enshi Housing and Urban-rural Development and Urban Management System launched relevant emergency rescue plans, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Hubei Provincial Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department dispatched experts and equipment support. The emergency vehicles in the East China Base of the Water Supply Emergency Rescue Center of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China succeeded in producing water on the evening of the 22nd and began to deliver water, which can produce 480 tons of water per day.
Enshi City Water Plant resumes part of its production capacity and starts water supply. Photo by Dong Xiaobin
Enshi Prefecture also dispatched 81 water supply, sprinkler, and firefighting vehicles across the prefecture to take water from nearby rural water plants and transfer them to 125 water supply points in the city. Wuhan, Huangshi and other places organized emergency water supply rescue teams to rush to help; Xianning and Zhijiang each urgently purchased 2,000 barrels of drinking water, and Wuhan presented 980,000 bottles of purified water, which were quickly delivered to local residents.
Xiang Hui, director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, introduced that 40 damaged secondary water supply pumping stations in Enshi City have been repaired 38, and the original Qingjiang River water intakes of the second and third water plants have been repaired. The urban water plant restored part of its production capacity and started to supply water. On July 24, the water supply reached 55,000 tons.
The water supply in Enshi City is gradually restored, and the citizens clean the shops. Photo by Guo Xiaoying
Xiang Hui said that the impact of the Mazhecun landslide on the Dalongtan Reservoir has not been eliminated. The urban water plant can only rely on the original Qingjiang River intake for phased water intake and intermittent production, and the turbidity of the effluent is slightly higher than the national standard. It will take some time to restore normal water supply.
In the next step, Enshi will increase the supply of raw water and optimize the production process by increasing engineering measures, and strive to achieve a production capacity of more than 90,000 tons per day in the urban water plant from July 25. At the same time, we will improve emergency dispatching, improve the divisional, time-sharing, and peak-shifting water supply dispatching plan, and promote the construction of water supply guarantee projects to form a multi-source pattern with Cheba River as the main water source, Yujia River as the supplementary water source, and Dalongtan as the backup water source. .
Restore residents' basic electricity use two days in advance
The continuous heavy rainfall in mid-July caused damage to 71 electric poles, 86 ring network cabinets, 348 power distribution transformers, 214 power distribution cabinets, and 11 kilometers of buried cables in Enshi City; 1 35 kV line, 33 10kV lines and 998 stations were out of service; 170 units and residential areas in Enshi City were out of power, involving approximately 46,000 households
Enshi City fully restored the basic electricity consumption of residents two days in advance. Photo by Zhou Xingliang
After the disaster, Enshi Prefecture set up a special work class, and quickly allocated special funds for the emergency repair of power distribution facilities in the living quarters of the affected residents, and in accordance with "check first and then check, first main line and branch line, focus first and other, temporary and then permanent" The recovery strategy of the company, scientifically organize line construction, and orderly restore power.
It is understood that in the battle to restore power supply in Enshi, the State Grid Hubei Provincial Electric Power Company urgently dispatched 69 types of materials such as transformers to ensure that all insurance should be guaranteed. At the same time, it organized Wuhan, Yichang, Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Jingmen, Suizhou, Xiaogan, Huangshi and other places. 371 people from the power supply company, 19 large generator cars and 4 generators rushed to Enshi.
Xiang Yingcai, director of the Economic and Information Bureau of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, said that after six days and six nights of hard work, as of 6:50 on July 24, Enshi fully restored basic electricity for residents two days in advance.
Emergency repair of power distribution facilities in disaster-stricken residential quarters. Photo by Zhou Xingliang
Xiang Yingcai said that the next step will be to investigate and rectify the problems found one by one to consolidate the results of comprehensive restoration of power supply. For those who use temporary lines and temporary substations to achieve power supply, they will be adjusted to permanent power supply facilities as soon as possible to completely solve the long-term The issue of safe electricity use.
All mobile communication networks are back to normal
In the flood disaster, 2,038 communication base stations in Enshi city were retired due to power outages and 96 were damaged. Among them, 822 base stations were retired and 15 were damaged; 589 base stations were retired and 72 were damaged. ; 627 base stations of China Unicom were retired and 9 were damaged. 103,000 broadband users in urban areas lost their Internet access. Some facilities in the core computer room of the telecommunications company and China Unicom were damaged.
In order to ensure the rapid recovery of communications, the communications company in Enshi Prefecture dispatched a total of 4,931 people and mobilized 2,195 vehicles to participate in disaster relief work. At the same time, telecommunications companies in Wuhan, Yichang and other regions have provided great assistance in terms of funds, equipment, personnel, and materials.
Up to now, all base stations that have been discontinued by China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, and Tower have been restored, all damaged base stations have been repaired, and all mobile communication networks have returned to normal. The broadband optical fiber networks of the three communication companies have all been restored, and all affected broadband users can access the Internet normally.
Xiang Yingcai introduced that while restoring the post-disaster reconstruction, various communication companies also actively participated in the communication support work for the sand dam geological disaster rescue. The four communication companies deployed 194 people and 9 emergency communication support vehicles to participate in the on-site rescue to ensure The communication of the on-site headquarters is unblocked. (Finish)