There are reports of damage from flash floods and high water in these areas as well. [38], More than 1,100 rescue workers searched to find the remaining victims, including up to 30 children and infants, and eight of the original missing turned up alive. [87] On the morning of August 17, a 540-metre-long (590 yd) bridge spanning the Yarkand River was destroyed by the mountain torrents, incurring a regional block of National Highway 315. At this early stage, it is too soon to make a yield forecast for the late crop. [18], The flooding affected 31.81 million people in Sichuan, including Luzhou city's 95 townships. The level of Hanjiang River, the highest in two decades, rose to 35.39 meters as it approached Wuhan at midday Wednesday. The city has a population of about 9.1 million and is a major transport and economic hub in central China. The flooding attracted attention from the state leaders of the Chinese Government and the public, who brought aid to the victims of the flooding. [60][61], In Mianzhu and Deyang, heavy rains started on August 12 and landslides hit on August 13, killing five people and trapping 500 more in an area devastated by the recent drought and the earthquake in 2008. Damages from the floods in the county exceeded 800 million yuan, equal to about 5.7 times the county government's revenue in 2009. Demolition experts started working on the lake to release some of its water. High Flood Danger in the Yangtze River Basin Floods have hit 27 provinces and municipalities since the start of the 2010 flood season in April, affecting 110 million people, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Rainfall in many parts of China has been much heavier than normal in July 2010. The dam's outflow released 40,000 m3/s of water, with 30,000 m3/s of the river flow held back behind the dam, after water levels in the Reservoir rose four metres (13 ft) overnight. [6][2] [84], Torrential rains killed 25 people in Qinghai in July and left three more missing, affecting 41,000 people. In total, the flooding and landslides killed at least 3,185 people in China by August 31. Harvesting normally takes place from mid to late July. Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in the county at 4:35 pm on August 8. The report didn’t make clear if the estimated yield reductions referred to the entire 2010/11 rice crop or just the early rice crop, which accounts for about 16 percent of China’s total output. It was aimed at both generating power and reining in the ferocious Yangtze, the cause of many terrible floods in Chinese history. The flooding killed one person and injured 165 others, and 55,000 people were affected in the county while 6,000 houses were destroyed. [41], Residents of the city of Ganzhou were protected from the flooding by drains built in the area during the Song Dynasty. [25] The total damages from the floods were roughly 83.8 billion yuan as of June 27, 2010,[19] and over 275 billion yuan (41 billion USD) by August 8. Rainfall in the Yangtze basin was near to above normal in the spring, but much above normal in the first 20 days of July. The total direct economic loss was about 6.89 billion yuan, and 25,000 homes were damaged in the flooding in August. A 347-metre-wide (1,138 ft) breach of the Changkai dike on the Fuhe River, which burst its banks on June 21 and again on June 23, in Luozhen Township, Fuzhou City, forced 1.32 million people to evacuate. More than 7 million hectares of farmland were affected and 645,000 houses were destroyed. [80] The river's flow hit a peak of 27,000 m3/s on August 21, flooding 44 townships and causing 158 embankment breaches. 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If heavy rains of a wide range cover the whole basin, high strength floods hit each other causing floods to appear in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, for example, the floods occurring in 1954 and 1998. The latest precipitation forecast by the Climate Prediction Center calls for moderate to heavy rain (1-3 inches) to continue in the Yangtze basin, adding more water to the already-saturated soils and brimming rivers. The cotton crop, planted a week or two behind schedule in June, was in the vegetative/early reproductive stage. Many major rivers in China, including the Yangtze, Yellow and Songhua Rivers were flooded to danger levels. The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang (Mandarin [ʈʂʰǎŋ tɕjáŋ]) is the langest river in Asie, an the third langest in the warld. [70] By late afternoon on August 1, 6,387 barrels had been retrieved from the river. On July 21, the China Grain Reserves Corporation (formerly known as Sinograin) reported that China’s rice output could fall by 10 to 20 percent due to torrential rains, flooding, and the outbreaks of pests and diseases in the Yangtze River basin. The floods during 2010 in China are considered to be one of the most damaging of all floods. All of which were located in the middle to lower reaches of the river. The 1998 Yangtze River floods were a series of major floods that lasted from middle of June to the beginning of September 1998 along the Yangtze. [37] The first body, a child, was found by rescue workers in the late afternoon of June 29. The Yangtze River flooding primarily affected the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. [19] In late June, floodwaters threatened the major city of Changsha, as water levels rose 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) above danger level, the highest in a decade, and the third-highest since 1953. Three deaths occurred in the province with two missing, while 550,000 people were affected and 80,000 relocated. [73], Floods triggered by torrential rains pounded Akto County on July 6 resulted in 6 deaths and 2 missing. [36] Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu urged the use of all resources to rescue any survivors. To date, flood waters have overtopped several small reservoirs and officials have deliberately breeched a handful of dikes to prevent downstream flooding. [67], In the city of Luoyang, Henan, a bridge on the Yi River collapsed as onlookers crowded it to watch the flooding, 51 people were killed with 15 missing. There were reports that some barrels exploded on contact with water. [74] Unprecedented record levels of flooding hit the Yalu River, where shipping was suspended, and the Tumen River both bordering North Korea, while Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in the province suffered its worst flooding in one hundred years. The construction of the Three Gorges Dam and other flood control improvements since then has helped to prevent a repeat of that disaster. All ferry service in the Reservoir was halted as total flow rate exceeded 45,000 m3/s, although the crest of the flooding passed the dam by July 24. [40] The flood crest of the Gan River passed the city of Nanchang on June 23. The number of people affected was totalled at 1.3 million, damages totalled 5.5 billion yuan, and 365,000 people were relocated. The Bailong River was dammed by the landslide and started to overflow around 1 am on August 8, creating a landslide lake 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long, 100 metres (330 ft) wide and 9 metres (30 ft) deep, holding 1.5 million m3 of water and submerging parts of the town, forcing 19,000 people downstream. Hubei normally plants around 550,000 hectares of cotton each year. [64], In Hubei, the Han River at Wuhan experienced its worst flooding in twenty years, as officials continued sandbagging efforts along the Han and Yangtze Rivers in the city and checked reservoirs. The rain led to landslides and flash floods that killed hundreds of people and caused billions of dollars in damages. This followed a month of excessive rain and flooding in southern China during June. Yangtze River, China's longest, on Aug. 17 recorded the fifth flood of the year in its upper reaches after a spell of heavy rainfall, three days after the fourth flood was recorded on Aug. 14. [27] The flooding attracted attention from the state leaders of the Chinese Government and the public, who brought aid to the victims of the flooding. Widespread flooding in the Yangtze basin causes deaths as overflowing rivers drown streets. Water levels in the Yangtze River and its tributaries reached the highest level since 1998, when catastrophic floods killed thousands of people in the region. Throughout the East Asian Monsoonseason, the worst of the flooding shifted from Southwestern China to Central China by June and July and moved to North… [35] Officials stated there was little hope for survival of the buried victims, and the torrential rains were likely to continue. Crop losses from flooding in June and July were also reported in northern Jiangxi, which has an annual production around 100,000 tons, and northern Hunan province (annual production averaged at about 250,000 tons. Fifty-three of the deaths occurred from the flooding and landslides between May 31 and June 3,[13] and 266 deaths occurred between June 13 and June 29. Officials stated that tests showed the water in the river remained safe to drink. Due to heavy rain in the upper streams of the Yangtze River, the Three Gorge reservoir has seen a recent increase to its inflow. Reservoirs and dams are constructed for water storage, to reduce the risk of river flooding, and for the generation of power. The Changjiang Water Resources Commission reported the water level had reached 146.97 metres with peak inflows of 53,000 cubic metres per second, the same rate as the 1998 floods. [75], In Linjiang City, also bordering North Korea on the Yalu, three townships were cut off by floods and mudslides, and 38,000 residents were relocated. Late rice transplanting was delayed due to the slow development/harvest of the early rice crop. Flow rates as high as 56,000 cubic meters per second hit the dam at 8 a.m. Wednesday, and the dam discharged water at a rate of 40,000 cubic meters per second, meaning water continued to accumulate in the reservoir. Zr/Rb ratios were chosen as a proxy for Yangtze River floods. 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