Flood risk in several counties

In Mehedinti, Dolj, Olt and Teleorman are enabled now, coordinated by the prefects, the Committees for Emergency Situations, which monitors the hydrologic evolution and coordinate any action on the field.

According to Radio Romania News correspondent, Adrian Lungu, the intervention forces are mobilized also in Salaj County.

Approximately 700 hectares of farming land, 12 households and more county roads were flooded in Salaj in the last hours because of heavy rainfall, announced today the head of the County Committee for Emergency Situations.

Present in Salaj, the General Inspector of the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, General Brigadier Ioan Bas, called for urgent action to ensure the permanence in actual town halls and monitoring of rivers and streams across the country, given that rain was forecast also for the next period.

Salaj authorities ordered the permanent monitoring of Varsolt accumulation, the water level rising alarmingly in the last hours, the risk of flooding downstream becoming greater and greater.

At 17 o’clock entered into force the yellow code warning on rivers basins: Viseu and Iza - in Maramures, Tur - in Satu-Mare, Somesul Mare - in Bistrita-Nasaud, Crasna - in Salaj and Satu Mare, Barcau , the upper and lower course of Crisul Negru, the lower course of Crisul Alb, Bega Veche, lower Timis, Bârzava, Moravita, Jiu and on the upper and middle course of Jijia.

It was established also an orange code on the dammed river Crasna from Satu Mare County, downstream of Crisul Negru and on its tributary Holod, from Bihor County.


Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University