“OLVIA-PRESS”

EUROPEAN FLOOD DOES NOT THREATEN DNIESTRIA.

As the press agency “Olvia-press” informs linking Russian and Western European mass media, in the Western Europe, the beginning of the new year coincided with a very abundant flood. Its reason were shower rains that had longed for several days and crushed over Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Portugal. Information from other countries suffered of the calamity may come in the nearest time.

Over one hundred and forty places in Great Britain have already been declared zones of heightened hazard. In many departments of France, the level of underground waters has increased and some rivers overflowed their banks because of rains. In Belgium, nearly all rivers in south were declared zones of flood. In Portugal, the situation approaches catastrophe. Nearly the whole central part of the country appeared to be underwater.

Increase of level of waters is not excluded, too. The Ukrainian hydro-meteorological center informs that because of warming up to +7ºC on the river Dniester and its mount influxes, water level may rise for 1-2 meters. In left influxes of the Dniester, rivers of basins of Western Bug and Pripyati – up to 1 meter. Driving of ice and ice jams are possible.

Liudmila Gavrilenko, the chief of department of hydrology by the Republican hydro-meteorological center, gave an interview to correspondent of the press agency “Olvia-press” and commented on the question whether citizens of the DMR should fear of rise of water level in the Dniester. By her words, the segment of Dniester in Ukraine, where the water level may presumably rise, is situated enough far from the DMR territory. Near Tiraspol, freeze-up still keeps on the river. But even in case of ice-drive start, rise of water level for 1-2 meter will be nearly unremarkable.

A reference from the press agency “Olvia-press”.

The climax of high water in the Dniester occurs in May and June. Namely this time, in Carpathian mountains there begins melting of glaciers, which are the main sources of water, feeding the Dniester.

I. Letiaga.