The Urals, the Volga region and Siberia prepare for the coming high water. Snow in the winter was a lot, so the high water in some regions can be serious. The engineers already blow up ice on the rivers.

In the Urals began to prepare for the flood. In the Chelyabinsk region SIM river under the close supervision of the engineering troops. There blow the ice thickness of 90 cm to prevent flooding of houses, bridges and hydraulic structures in Yuzhnouralsk town of Asha. Proactive, take place exclusively during the day. To break the ice the engineers prepared about a ton of explosives. And all under the supervision of the regional control Center of the headquarters of the CVO, where to monitor the situation on the water bodies of the Urals, the Volga region, Siberia.

The level of the Volga river near Nizhny Novgorod is still normal. Dangerous mark the longest river in Europe was overcome in 1994. On the hydrological post of the monitoring process with the help of modern instruments and classical techniques. Water is not a wave, but arrives gradually. Primarily due to warm weather. However, flooding this year is worth the wait as early as the first decade of April. In Nizhny Novgorod form 8 a flood of troops, ready and temporary accommodation for 40 thousand people. MOE tries to warn global spill Chusovoy. As a rule, the water level rises due to the discharge of the reservoirs that are upstream.

In the Sverdlovsk region 535 dams. 9 in poor condition, their is already reduced. Last year major repair was held on 3 units. Only in Druzhino-Bardymskogo dam has invested more than 52 million rubles. However, in the power of the elements this year may still be 11 settlements of the Sverdlovsk region. More than 70 risk being left without transport. The flood will probably serious, in the middle Urals fell the snow above normal for the third.
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