Ningbo to enter flood season
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- Published: Tuesday, 11 March 2014 14:41
Ningbo will enter its annual flood season a month from now, sail local meteorological authority. The municipal Flood Control and Drought Relief office urged related local government departments to strengthen disaster prevention. The Municipal Water Conservancy Bureau, together with local fisheries, land management, urban management, civil affair departments, has organized eight inspection teams, who shall carry out in-depth checks over flood prevention works in local counties (cities) and districts.
Ningbo has seen a larger overall amount of rainfall over the same period last year, said experts in local Hydrological station. the annual rainfall in January and February is 195 millimeters, increasing 40 percent over the city's annual average (130 mm). According to Yang Hui, head of local Hydrological station, the heavy rainfall increases flooding risk while adding water supplies and improving river water quality. As of yesterday, Ningbo's 32 large and medium reservoirs reported a total of 886 million cubic meters water in storage, up by more than nearly 100 million cubic meters, an equivalent to the total storage of Baixi Reservoir, the largest one in Nigbo.
Ningbo started more flood control checks at an earlier time over last year. The inspection includes the responsibility for operating and maintaining flood control works, the flood control plan, the status of all flood control works and facilities, reservoirs, dikes, seawalls and pumping stations, the restoration of flood-damaged works, and prevention against watershed torrents and geological disasters.
