“Racibórz Dolny reservoir launched!” – they reported at night Water Polish. “We protect Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Opole, Wroclaw and smaller towns” – lists the Regional Water Management Board in Gliwice. Since 4:20 a.m. the flood reservoir has been reducing the effects of the gigantic downpour that is passing over Poland.
– Everything indicates that the infrastructure built after 1997 and 2010, as far as Wrocław itself is concerned, should be sufficient. There will definitely be no repeat of history – he said prime minister Donlad Tusk in Kłodzko. He had in mind, among others, the Racibórz Dolny Reservoir on the Oder, which began to damming the rising waters and thus intercepts the rising wave, measurably cutting it.
The gate valves of the overflow and discharge structure were lowered when the Krzyżanowice water gauge station in the Upper Oda catchment area indicated a level of about 690 centimeters at a flow of about 750 m3/s. The Buków polder, located above, cooperates with the Racibórz reservoir, with a flood capacity of 57 million cubic meters. It began to accumulate water in the uncontrollable part on Saturday.
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