Flood in Poland 2024. “The reservoir in Mietków is safe”

At a meeting of the crisis team in Wrocław after 6 p.m., the city president, Jacek Sutryk, gave “urgent information from a moment ago”. – The embankment of the pumping station in Mietków has burst. This means that people need to be evacuated quickly, and there is also an urgent need for big bags and helicopters – he noted.

Joanna Kopczyńska, Head of Polish Waters After a few minutes, she said the message was being verified. “We are on site and verifying. As soon as I receive the information, I will inform everyone,” she said.

After a dozen or so minutes, the prime minister Donald Tusk spoke on the matter. – We received a signal that it was not Mietków, but Wawrzeńczyce. This is a reservoir that is many times smaller and has a completely different scale – he said.

Before 7 p.m., the mayor of Wrocław wrote about the case on social media. “Wody Polskie is verifying the information provided earlier that the embankment of the pumping station in Mietków has burst. This is not the Mietków reservoir. This is a different place,” he said.

“ATTENTION ATTENTION!!! WE KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS! My people in Chwałów, Domanice or Mietków have not found any leaks yet,” wrote Tomasz Sakuta, mayor of the Mietków commune.

Brigadier Daniel Mucha from the Provincial Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Wrocław confirmed that there was no tank rupture in Mietków. – Mietków is intact. Now we have to check the situation in Wawrzeńczyce – he informed.

– The reservoir is not damaged. There is no overflow. This information came from another place, the importance of which is completely different and has no significance for the safety of the residents of Lower Silesia. There will be no evacuation decisions. The reservoir in Mietków is safe and there is no threat from this direction – he said at a meeting with journalists Tomasz SiemoniakMinister of Interior and Administration.

– We work in real time and verify information. This is the function of this headquarters. Secondly, we are sensitive in Wrocław to everything that happens and comes from Bystrzyca. We are monitoring the reservoir in Mietków, from which larger discharges will be planned. Today, it is important to verify every piece of information concerning the reservoir in Mietków – added the mayor of Wrocław, Jacek Sutryk.

“We do not confirm any cracks or damage to the embankments or other parts of the hydrotechnical structures of the Mietków reservoir. Currently, the reservoir is still operating in accordance with water management instructions,” the Regional Water Management Board in Wrocław reported on Tuesday evening.

As reported on Platform X by the Regional Water Management Board in Wrocław, “due to the persistent inflows above the flood flow to the Mietków reservoir, after consultation with the Lower Silesian Voivode, the Flood Protection Operational Center of the Regional Water Management Board in Wrocław issued an order to increase the discharge from the Mietków reservoir to 100 m3/s from 7 p.m.”

“The Mietków reservoir on the Bystrzyca River currently accumulates water within the limits of the maximum impoundment level of close to 77 million 3 of water with an inflow to the reservoir of 150 m3/s” – reported RZGW. The reservoir is located approx. 25 km southwest of Wrocław.