The flood receded, why didn’t the soldiers evacuate immediately?
"Farmland and fish ponds are flooded. I thought that my income would be cut off in the second half of the year. I didn't expect the waterlogged to drain so quickly, which gave me hope again!" August 7, Sanjiao Township, Sanjiao Lianwei, Yongxiu County, Jiangxi Province Zhou Yuwen, a villager in Ganfang Village, returned to his home flooded for the first time after more than 20 days of floods. He said excitedly that at this rate of drainage, production and life should be restored soon. Maybe you can plant rapeseed and raise some fish and shrimp in early October, and you can exchange it for money before the Spring Festival.
"The speed of restoring production and life is related to the economic income of the people in the second half of the year, and it is also an important measure to effectively prevent the people in need from returning to poverty due to disasters." Gu Zhong, commander and deputy commander of the 73rd Army Flood Relief Command Post, said this time They resolutely implemented the instructions and requirements of "people first, life first" and "preventing people in need from returning to poverty due to disasters". While actively participating in flood fighting and rescue work, they helped the people in post-disaster reconstruction in a timely manner, helping them quickly restore production and living order and create economic income. More precious time.
Pumping water
Economic income generation is a key factor for the people to get rid of poverty. Sanjiao Township is not a poor township, but it is a large agricultural township. Villagers are excluded from working, and they mainly rely on farmland planting and fish and shrimp breeding for economic income.
However, in this flood disaster, 12 villages in the township were inundated by floods, 58,000 mu of farmland and 10,000 mu of water aquaculture were damaged, the waterlogged depth was 4 to 6 meters, and more than 20,000 people were urgently moved. Today, the flood has receded, but the waterlogged still threatens the safety of the dike and affects the production and life of the people.
In accordance with flood conditions and orders from superiors, the 73rd Army deployed more than 1,000 officers and soldiers to help Sanjiao Township to help drain waterlogging while securing the embankment.
Screws, water pipes, gaskets...More than 100 pump parts are scattered in a pile. The more than 200 officers and soldiers of a chemical defense brigade of the 73rd Group Army who had just been transferred here from the Kangshan Dike in Yugan County were organized into 16 groups. After simple training by technical personnel, more than 30 pumps were assembled and put into use throughout the day and night.
"The bamboo drains are scattered, and the pumping is forced to stop!" In order to prevent the pump outlet from being too strong and prolonged draining and scouring threatening the dike, the village hired workers to tie the bamboo pads to the drain to reduce the buffer force, but they were often washed away due to improper tying methods. Affect the drainage progress. The brigade organized more than 50 officers and soldiers, and used professional knotting and binding methods to tie more than 500 bamboo rafts one after another. The bamboo rafts that were originally "changed once a day" became "changed every four or five days", which not only saved the labor cost for the village, but also Improved drainage speed.
"Why can't I get the water?" One afternoon, several people approached Xu Zeng, the squad leader of Pontoon Sixth Company, who was maintaining the water pumps, for help. The four newly assembled pumps were out of "condition". Xu Zeng's careful inspection found that it turned out that the gasket at the butt joint of the pipeline had fallen off and caused air leakage.
"This is technical work, but also physical work! The gasket is easy to slide down and shift during installation, which affects the sealing performance. A pump has 3 to 4 sections of leather pipes. Some of them need to be filled with water to install, and the weight exceeds 250. Kilograms." Xu Zeng said, in order to ensure airtightness, the officers and soldiers in groups of 10, used shoulder-carrying hand rests to keep the hoses as high as the main engine, and successfully assembled the pumping equipment.
During a dike inspection, the officers and soldiers found that the pump drain pipe was directly on the dike, which was easily damaged after being rolled by passing vehicles, which would delay the drainage time. With the consent of the local government, the 26 party members of the Sixth Company of Pontoon Bridge started operations at 9:15 in the evening to clean up rubbish, excavate roadbeds, and bury pipelines... until 10 am the next day, after overnight assault construction, laying steel plates, and completing the excavation 40 buried pipes.
Rush to harvest
"Thanks for the PLA!" On July 18, the left-behind old man Chen Jiuhua was very happy in Wanbu Shuxia Village, Raobu Town, Poyang County, Jiangxi Province. The day before, she was still frowning about harvesting rice.
Chen Jiuhua’s rice fields are located in the Poyang Lake area. After the floods, springs appeared in many places under the trees of Wanbu, Raobu Town. The water in the rice fields was waist-deep. Seeing the golden rice could not be harvested, she wiped tears in anxiousness.
"If the early rice is not harvested, the late rice will not be planted. What will affect is not the harvest of one season, but the life of the whole year." The village cadre said that Chen Jiuhua's family economic conditions are not very good, except for his two sons who work outside to make money. Rice is the main source of income. If it is not harvested, it will definitely affect family life.
After learning the news, the third battalion of a synthetic brigade of the 73rd Army immediately drew key party members to form a "double grab" squad, borrowed sickles and snakeskin bags, and took advantage of the flood fighting gap. He helped four villagers in difficulties, including Chen Jiuhua, grab the early rice.
The early rice won't come back, so urgent! If you can't grow late rice, you are in a hurry! Zuo Wenguang, a villager in Houtang Village, Yugan County, Jiangxi Province, is not wealthy. Usually his son and daughter-in-law work outside the home, and the old couple take care of their two young grandchildren at home. The rice fields were hit in the early stage. Due to lack of labor, the couple had to work hard to harvest some of the early rice. Seeing that they wanted to plant late rice again, they were in a hurry.
“At the end of 2018, Houtang Village had just been lifted out of poverty. This year’s floods led to inundation of farmland, lodging more than 2,000 mu of rice, and economic losses of at least 500,000 yuan.” Zhang Xingwu, First Secretary of Poverty Alleviation in Houtang Village, said that before August 3. In the late rice rush season, families like Zuo Wenguang’s failure to plant will seriously affect their economic income in the second half of the year.
"When rice is planted one day earlier, the income will be increased by one point!" A certain synthetic brigade quickly dispatched more than 120 officers and soldiers to form a "grab seed" assault team to Houtang Village. Transporting seedlings, planting seedlings... At the rush to plant seedlings, the officers and soldiers were divided into 4 groups, and under the scorching sun, they jumped into the rice fields and planted seedlings like rain. After more than 6 hours of hard work, nearly 20 acres of late rice planting was completed in 4 needy households in Houtang Village.
Cleaning up garbage, leveling roads, killing and sterilizing... Since the flood fight, the group army has organized 13 voluntary visits and assisted the people in labor, rushed to harvest 44 acres of rice, sympathized with 184 families in need, cleared 75.3 tons of garbage, and eliminated 12.23. 10,000 square meters, to help the people solve the difficulties in production and life.
Eliminate hidden dangers
Unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned survey ships... In the past few days, the extensive use of scientific and technological "weapons" has given the 73rd Army's flood-fighting officers and soldiers even more powerful, greatly improved disaster prediction and prediction capabilities, and helped people in disaster areas eliminate safety hazards.
"Command, drone low-altitude reconnaissance found that the water surface of the pumping pump dam may be damaged due to long-term erosion. An unmanned survey vessel is required for further underwater surveys. The location is at the 17 km section of the triangular joint polder +500 meters..." On July 31, Shi Zeyong, head of the reconnaissance section of a chemical defense brigade, led officers and soldiers to the dike early in the morning to start daily data collection.
At about 10 am, soldier Yu Xuzhi found anomalies in several sets of underwater image data in the Triangle Union, with intermittent narrow and deep grooves. The headquarters and local flood control departments went to the site for immediate investigation and verification, and found that the abnormal location of the image data was deep and the soil at the foot of the embankment was relatively thin, prone to danger. The army and the local government worked hand in hand to formulate a reinforcement plan, quickly launched the construction work, and promptly eliminated major security risks.
"Using unmanned equipment to detect the situation of dykes and dams not only greatly reduces the workload, but also has the advantages of wide coverage, accurate data, rapid response, and early prediction." The technician He of the local dyke inspection team said that the daily manual dyke inspection is accurate but accurate. The efficiency is low. One patrol point is required on each kilometer of the embankment section, and the embankment patrol personnel have to touch the embankment once an hour, which can be seen by the naked eye on the water surface, but has no knowledge of the underwater situation.
"Eliminating hidden dangers can effectively ensure the production and life of the people, and minimize the risk of poverty due to disasters." Lin Hui, political commissar of a chemical defense brigade of the 73rd Army Group introduced that since the flood, they have coordinated 4 technology companies, 5 categories 10 Type 17 unmanned platforms (ships and ministries), using infrared thermal imaging, underwater sonar and other technologies, completed the three-dimensional survey of 125 kilometers of key dams, adopted three-dimensional modeling technology to restore the topography of the embankment on the water and underwater, and analyzed and found suspected dangerous conditions 18 places, 22 reasonable suggestions were put forward, which not only provides data support for the next winter repair of water conservancy projects for local governments, but also provides a reliable basis for protecting people's lives and property.
Wu Keru and Zhao Xin Source: China Youth Daily