NE China river records highest water level

Source: Shanghai Daily | August 29, 2013, Thursday |

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The water level in a section of the Sino-Russia bordering Heilongjiang River has risen to a record high in the region's worst flooding in more than a decade, the flood control commanding center said today.

At 8 am, the water level in the river's Fuyuan section, in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, had risen 20 centimeters from yesterday, or 2.17 meters above the warning level, according to the center.

Floods have swept many parts of Fuyuan County, where a national sturgeon breeding base and reserve was destroyed, resulting in losses of 1 million kilograms of fish.

Floods have inundated multiple sections of a major road in Fuyuan, home to about 170,000 people, while another road alongside the river has been totally submerged.

The river has swollen since mid-August, with some sections of its middle and lower reaches seeing their worst floods in history.

Floods have also ravaged Jilin and Liaoning provinces in China's northeast, claiming 85 lives and leaving 105 missing, while more than 2 million people have been affected.

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NE China river records highest water level

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