First Flood Crest Passes through E. China Provincial Capital

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, May 20, 2003

First Flood Crest Passes through E. China Provincial Capital

The first flood crest of this year's flooding season on the Ganjiang River passed through Nanchang city, the capital of east China's Jiangxi province Tuesday, without a mishap.

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The first flood crest of this year's flooding season on the Ganjiang River passed through Nanchang city, the capital of east China's Jiangxi province Tuesday, without a mishap.

The flood crest, the first occurred in this province in 2003, peaked at 22.09 meters, only 81 centimeters lower than the flood danger level, said a source with the local hydrological department on Tuesday.

The upper and middle reaches of the Ganjiang River were pelted by torrential rains and rainstorms from May 15 to 17, with an area of 99,200 sq km receiving more than 100 millimeters of rainfall.

The rainstorms caused severe flooding on the Ganjiang river's upper reaches and their surrounding areas. In the middle reaches, flooding brought damages to hilly areas, destroying irrigation works and facilities, communication and traffic establishments, wrecked houses and factories, and flattened and brought havoc to large tracts of cropland.

When the flood crest passed through Ganzhou city on May 18, the water level was 1.46 meters above the flood danger line, but dropped gradually in lower reaches.

Hydrological departments attributed the steady decline in waterlevel to the Wan'an reservoir, which discharged surging water intoit before the flooding came and absorbed 34 percent of the floodwater.

Analyses from provincial hydrological departments predicted, however, that there may be flooding in some areas of Jiangxi fromMay to early July, as the province would receive 730 millimeters of rainfall from May to July this year, which is 10 percent more than average rainfall in recent years.

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