Hunan Province, a breach occurred in the first-line dike of Tuanzhou Embankment and Dongting Lake. It is necessary to promptly transfer and properly resettle the people in the threatened areas, make every effort to carry out rescue and rescue work, and effectively protect the safety of people's lives and property. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters should send a working group to strengthen guidance. Since
China entered the main flood season in an all-round way, the rainfall in some places has been heavy and lasted for a long time, and the flood control situation is grim, especially when the dam is eroded by water for a long time, it is prone to piping and other dangerous situations, and there are greater risks. Relevant local Party committees and governments and relevant departments should act quickly, organize forces to carry out flood control, disaster relief and rescue work, strengthen dike inspection, timely detection and disposal of dangerous situations, and ensure flood control safety.
-Xi Jinping
, at about 16:00 on July 5, a dangerous situation of piping occurred in the first-line embankment (pile number 19 + 800) of Tuanzhouyuan Dongting Lake in Huarong County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province. At 17:48, the dam burst after the failure of emergency blocking. After preliminary survey, the width of the breach was about 10 meters, and by 23:00, the breach had expanded to more than 100 meters; by 11:00 on the 6th, the breach was 226 meters long. Around 1500 hours on the 6th, the water level inside and outside the Tuanzhou embankment was basically flat, and the field headquarters was urgently dispatching to carry out a two-way "war.". According to water experts, two-way "war" refers to pouring materials into the breach and starting to plug it.
In order to resolutely implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on July 5, according to the unified dispatch of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government, the South China Material Aggregate Enterprises of China Building Materials Group, Hunan Miluo Southern New Materials and Hunan Linli Southern New Materials, responded quickly.
From July 5 to 6, the two enterprises urgently dispatched 3000 tons of stone blocks (1000 tons of new materials in the south of Linli, Hunan, 2000 tons of new materials in the south of Miluo, Hunan) and 120 trucks of support materials to the breach of Tuanzhou embankment in Huarong County, Yueyang City for reinforcement.
Up to now, the first batch of vehicles loaded with stones have arrived in Huarong County to receive local command and participate in rescue work.
Hunan Miluo Nanfang New Materials will provide logistical support
for the drivers who transport stone blocks. Hunan Miluo Nanfang New Materials is still organizing the shipment of stone blocks. It will continue to deploy 6,000 tons of stone blocks to support Huarong County, and properly arrange to solve the problems of food, drinking water and other living security for the drivers. Hunan Linli Nanfang New Material Vehicle is on its way back to the factory. The leader of the team has returned to the factory with the shipment vehicle. The enterprise has made 24-hour arrangements to respond to the order of the emergency department at any time for shipment reinforcement.
