Directly attacking Chaohu Lake in Anhui Province to fight floods: "Resistance War": Defence and protect people's safety

　　China News Service, Hefei, July 29th. Title: Directly attacking the flood-resistance battle of Chaohu Lake in Anhui Province: Defending and protecting people's safety

　　China News Agency reporter Zhao Qiang

　　On the 28th, Hefei was overcast and rainy. At the flood diversion site of Peigang Lianwei, Lujiang County, Anhui Province, torrential floods poured out. After the flood entered the polder, the water level rose, and many farmland, roads and trees were submerged.

　　Located in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, Chaohu Lake is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China, with a water area of ​​770 square kilometers. In the Chaohu Lake Basin, there are the main traffic arteries in eastern China, the East China Transmission Corridor, etc., and there are millions of people. During this year's flood season, multiple rounds of heavy rainfall caused the entire Chaohu Lake basin to exceed the guaranteed water level, and the Chaohu Lake water level has exceeded the once-in-a-hundred-year standard for many consecutive days.

　　On July 27, in order to alleviate the flood pressure of Chaohu Lake, Hefei opened the flood diversion system of Peigang Lianwei in Lujiang County. This is the third 10,000-mu large polder in the Chaohu Lake Basin after Binhu Lianwei and Jiangkouhe Lianwei. Up to now, Hefei has taken the initiative to use 9 large and medium-sized puddles of more than 10,000 acres, which has "lightened" Chaohu Lake by 1.5 billion cubic meters, effectively lowering the water level of Chaohu Lake.

　　Wan Xinfu, a villager of Longgang Group in Peigang Community, Baihu Town, Lujiang County, told reporters that his home is only 2.5 kilometers away from the flood diversion site of the Pei River section of Peigang Lianwei. "I have lived here for almost 70 years, and I have never seen such a large amount of water. When I heard the transfer, I had been patrolling the dyke in Peigang Lianwei for more than ten days. Because my mother was old and needed someone to take care of it, so I took my mother to the centralized resettlement site. My family has 9 acres of rice fields, which are usually ready to be harvested at this time. This year, in order to support the government's flood diversion, we have to give up."

　　Wan Xinfu said: "Although the house is flooded, it is good for people to be safe. Now I most hope that the flood will pass as soon as possible and I will go back and plant some crops to make up for the loss."

　　As of noon on July 27, the 8,426 people in the affected area of ​​Peigang Lianwei had all been safely transferred.

　　At the Fanshan Middle School resettlement site in Fanshan Town, Lujiang County, 32 people from 4 villages in Peigang Lianwei, including Wanxinfu, have been concentrated.

　　According to Li Maolin, the first-level chief clerk in Baihu Town, Lujiang County, and the person in charge of the resettlement site of Fanshan Middle School, the resettlement site is divided into two shifts to provide services to the masses 24 hours a day. "We must not only engage in flood fighting and rescue operations, but also prevent people from returning home and entering the polder. At present, the deepest part of the polder is more than 3 meters, which is very dangerous."

　　While scientific flood distribution, while orderly flood control. On the 28th, the reporter saw that the water level in Zhongmiao, Chaohu Lake had dropped, and some residents began to return to the town to transfer materials and clean their homes. However, on the embankment around Chaohu Lake in Zhongmiao, local cadres and people, officers and soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army, etc. were still busy strengthening the dam.

　　According to Yan Fengyun, the propaganda committee member of Zhongmiao Street, Chaohu, the embankment of Zhongmiao surrounding Chaohu is 7.2 kilometers long. At present, there are no less than 60 people assigned to personnel per kilometer, and the embankment is strictly guarded. "Although the water level has dropped by 30 centimeters, we have prepared enough flood control materials such as sandbags and stones to reinforce the dam in advance to prevent wind and waves from hitting the embankment."

　　According to reports, the waves of Chaohu Lake often appear as rolling waves, which have a strong impact on the embankment. After a long-term impact of wind and waves, the earth embankment will burst in severe cases.

　　Yan Fengyun said that in 2018, the local government carried out a "water damage project" (referring to flood prevention and mitigation construction for rivers and lakes that have suffered severe flooding and damage to water conservancy projects) along the embankment of the Chaohu Lake in Zhongmiao, although the water level this year is The highest in history, but the local flood control is very confident.

　　On the 28th, the Anhui Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters issued the No. 22 Flood Information Announcement, stating that at 15:00 on July 28, the water level of Chaohu Zhongmiao Station was 13.12 meters, which exceeded the guaranteed water level by 0.62 meters. The notice requires that the main dikes of the Yangtze River, the Huaihe River, the Chaohu Dike and other important dikes should be inspected and defended unremittingly. (Finish)