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Third-level Flood Alert in Force on Morava and Myjava Rivers and in Kosice
Monday 17 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava/Kosice, May 17 (TASR) - The level of the Morava River (which runs along Slovakia's borders with the Czech Republic and Austria) on Monday morning reached 459 centimetres in Kopcany in the far west of Slovakia, triggering a third-level flood alert.
Slovakia's biggest river by volume, the Danube, is still below the first flood-alert level, however. "Due to the significant flow rates in the Morava, we expect a moderate increase in the Danube," said Pavel Virag of state-run water utility Slovensky vodohospodarsky podnik.
A third-level alert is also in place on the Myjava River near Jablonica (Trnava region).
Meanwhile, mayor of Kosice Frantisek Knapik declared a third-level flood alert in the city in the morning.
An emergency situation has been declared in the district of Trebisov (Kosice region). A crisis-management team is working to relieve the town of Trebisov. Fire-fighters have their hands full, where possible draining water from house cellars. Several families from the villages of Zipov and Cerhov have had to be evacuated, as well as the Kazimir Roma settlement.
Apart from houses, the floods are mainly damaging crops in the fields.
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