Kherson goes under water Bashny.Net

This spring on the Dnieper will be a big flood. The first alarm bells are already clearly visible in Kherson, where groundwater and meltwater podtopilo several areas of the city. A key factor is the water discharge of the Kakhovka HPS. Now he has reached 2578 m3 / s. According to estimations of the station in the near future it will reach about 5,000 m3 / s. This will cause the water level in the river will rise by a meter.

What this means for residents of Kherson you well understand, when you look the photo below. According to the head of the Kherson region oblvodkhozes Egor Kovalenko: "If the water discharge will increase to 5,000 m3 / s, we can not control the situation and the water flooded the territory of the Old Island».

In general, once again the city government, and along with it, and a nationwide we missed the moment when it was necessary to act. According to our information MOE in ten days of January addressed to the mayor of Kherson Volodymyr Saldo with a warning that closer to spring flooding is expected serious. Balance dismissed the warnings MChSniki allegedly let it be the headache of Kiev (it is not surprising, because there were elections).

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So when three weeks ago, the water level in low-lying areas of Kherson started to grow, the city government was not prepared for such an eventuality.

Today heronskaya Municipality officially released such statistics flooding:

Dniprovskyi borough: the number of flooded households - 18; cellars - 1518.
Komsomol district: building - 107; Yard - 998 (material losses - 5 mln.580 USD).
Suvorov district: basements - 797, secondary school number 24 - (flooded by shooting water at the switchboard.

Total Kherson: the number of private homes flooded from February 18 has not changed and is - 107 units; Yard - 1016, cellars - 797.

However, buying the statistics do not give a real picture of what is happening. We have tried to fill this gap. Along with the journalists of the newspaper "Pravda Kherson", as well as activists of the public movement "For Chesney Vlad!" Visited the old Island of Kherson. That's where there was the most difficult situation with the flooding.



This is a typical pattern. The hosts are trying to pump out the water, as a rule, it does not help.



At first glance, the water a little, but it is everywhere.



Water is pumped out during the day but in the morning she again comes



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