“There was a technical failure at the Krosnowice reservoir in Lower Silesia. The surface spillway stopped working and the water table dropped,” Joanna Kopczyńska, president of State Water Holding Wody Polskie, said during the crisis management briefing.
A meeting was held on Wednesday morning in Wrocław crisis teamin which Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as well as the heads of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Interior and Administration, took part..
As reported by the President of the State Water Management Company Wody Polskie, Joanna Kopczyńska, There was a technical failure at the Krosnowice reservoir in Lower Silesia. The surface spillway stopped working and the water table dropped. However, the flow is not a threat.
Joanna Kopczyńska also reported that from 9:00 pm on Monday, September 16, the Oder dry polder and the Oława-Lipki polder are full. She added that the filling of the Rybna-Stobrawa polder began on Tuesday evening.
Kopczyńska reported, that water be released in a controlled manner from the Mysłakowice reservoir in Jelenia Góra and that the flow rate of the Nysa reservoir can be reduced. She noted that on Wednesday, from 7:00 am the flow is reduced to 400 m3/s. This is a normal outlet from the Nysa reservoir – she added.
We still have a large flow to Mietków. Therefore, the flow rate of Mietkowo itself, so that the reservoir does not lose its retention capacity, is currently 100 m3/s. We started with 40. Therefore, we equalize the inflow and outflow – she informed. As she highlighted, this reservoir is continuously monitored and the services mainly check that the front dam and the surrounding area of the reservoir do not have leaks.
Referring to local events, he stated, among others, that: the wall on Moniuszki Street in Żagań is leaking and was protected by the army at night.
Kopczyńska assessed that the maximum height of water in Wrocław could reach that of the 2010 flood. Our forecasts show that the water level in Wrocław is at its peak in 2010. – she said. She estimated that Oława is still the “critical point”.
On Wednesday, the president of the Wody Polskie State Water Management Company, Joanna Kopczyńska, repeated her call not to approach flood embankments and hydrotechnical devices. In selected places It is strictly forbidden to circulate in these places.
The point is that landfills become waterlogged and are easily damaged. We must not now obstruct the services that work there. She noted that currently the biggest difficulty will be “overcoming the flattened flood wave, which will last for several days”. So this infrastructure will be extremely sensitive if someone wants to step on it, which is why we have issued an absolute ban, but we also encourage people to avoid it. – she emphasized.
