Sep 26, 2021 11:19 PM (GMT+8) · EqualOcean
Financial Associated Press, September 26 (Xinhua) -- recently, Nanzhao County, Nanyang, Henan Province, encountered a torrential rain. The maximum rainfall within 24 hours reached 482mm. 80 local small and medium-sized reservoirs exceeded the flood limit water level, including 27 reservoirs exceeding the flood limit water level by 1m. The water level in the reservoir area of Yahekou Reservoir once rose by 1m every hour, which is a severe situation. Since the early morning of the 25th, Yahekou Reservoir began to discharge flood, and the water level of the reservoir is falling continuously. Up to now, the inflow flow is 560 cubic meters per second, the outflow flow is 1998 cubic meters per second, and the water level exceeding the flood limit is 1.63 meters. According to Yahekou Reservoir Authority, the reservoir water level is expected to fall below the flood limit tomorrow.