Water Levels of Lower Huaihe, Yangtze Rivers Remain High

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Water Levels of Lower Huaihe, Yangtze Rivers Remain High

Water levels on the lower Huaihe and Yangtze rivers remained above the warning lines Thursday.

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Water levels on the lower Huaihe and Yangtze rivers remained above the warning lines Thursday.

The level of Jiangba hydrologic station at Hongze Lake, on the lower Huaihe River, was recorded at 14.25 meters at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, still 0.75 meters above the warning line and 0.19 meters above the peak level of 1991, according to the flood control headquarters of east China's Jiangsu Province.

The outflow of Hongze Lake reached 11,797 cubic meters per second by 2:00 p.m., greater than the 9,708 cubic meters per second flowing into the lake.

Owing to increased water flow, and the spring tide, the tide height in the entire Jiangsu section of the Yangtze has stayed above the warning line for the past three days.

By 8:00 a.m. Thursday, the rate of flow at Datong hydrologic station reached 61,300 cubic meters per second; tide height in Nanjing City, the provincial capital, reached 9.22 meters, 0.72 meters above the warning line.

Some 1.01 million people in Jiangsu were patrolling the embankments of both the Huaihe and Yangtze rivers by Thursday morning.

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