As the second largest freshwater lake in China, Dongting Lake, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, has always been a good scenery in the poetry of literati and writers since ancient times
But no one expected that the 800-mile Dongting Lake would burst overnight, as the land of fish and rice, one of the birthplaces of mainland culture, and the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake, but it brought a disaster to the nearby villages
At about 16 o'clock in the afternoon of July 5, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, Huarong County, Tuanzhou Dongting Lake embankment pipe gushing danger, the relevant departments immediately took action to take emergency plugging of the dangerous area, after the failure of the blocking, the dangerous section of the embankment burst, only more than an hour after the dangerous situation, the width of the gap expanded from ten meters to about 100 meters
The raging water of the lake rushed towards the gap, and the nearby residents, houses, and farmland were greatly affected, and this danger was unexpected, in just a few hours, the farmland of the villages near the breach of the embankment was submerged, and the originally peaceful village has become a vast ocean, and the tallest residential buildings can only be seen from a distance in the water.
According to a netizen, before the disaster came, he had driven past the embankment where the danger occurred, and when he found cracks on the road surface, he knew that something was wrong and immediately reported it to the relevant departments
According to local insiders, when the gap was small at the beginning, a few sand trucks could still be blocked, but as the gap became bigger and bigger, the sand trucks that came behind were directly washed away, and I dare not imagine how dangerous the situation was at that time
After the danger occurred, the relevant departments of Hunan Province immediately organized rescue and disaster relief work, rescue and rescue with both hands, the armed police force rushed to the scene as soon as possible, the relevant departments dispatched more than 2,300 rescue personnel of all kinds, more than 160 assault boats, after a day and a night of sleeplessness, more than 5,000 people affected by the disaster in 6 villages and 1 community near the base have all been safely transferred, fortunately, the danger did not cause casualties.
The Office of the National Disaster Prevention and Relief Committee and the relevant emergency management departments have allocated 56,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials to the State Food and Material Reserve Administration and Yueyang, Hunan Province, and have also urgently allocated 5,000 additional family emergency kits to ensure that the affected people are properly resettled.
However, as China's second largest freshwater lake, Dongting Lake spans more than a dozen counties and cities, and the gap in the embankment continues to expand.
Up to now, the water level of the Dongting Lake embankment is still in a state of slow rise, and the width of the breach has also extended from 100 meters to more than 200 meters.
Before the levee burst, the water level of Dongting Lake had risen sharply due to heavy rains for several days, and the Yueyang Street estuary closed the city gate to block the floodwater, creating two different scenes inside and outside the city
Historically, Dongting Lake has had many levee bursts, the most serious of which has affected the entire Hunan Province and some areas of Hubei Province.