In Belarus, flooding is predicted in up to 50 districts due to the flood

March 14, Minsk /BELTA/. According to the worst-case scenario, flooding of settlements and territories in 50 districts of the country is predicted in Belarus. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to forecasts, 4 districts of the Brest region, 10 of the Vitebsk region, 15 of the Gomel region, 6 each of the Grodno and Minsk regions, and 9 of the Mogilev region may be flooded. The highest probability of flooding is in the basins of the Pripyat, Sozh, Western Dvina, Neman, Dnieper, Berezina rivers, as well as Disna, Drysa, Ulla, Pronya, Western Bug, Iput, and Viliya rivers. The readiness of the sectoral and territorial subsystems of the state system for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations to respond to the negative consequences of spring floods was one of the key topics at the meeting of the Commission on Emergency Situations under the Council of Ministers, which was held on March 11 under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Kalinin. Following the meeting, instructions were given to a number of organizations. Thus, regional executive committees, Belkoopsoyuz, the Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Energy, together with interested parties, must complete preparatory measures by March 20 to ensure the uninterrupted delivery of food products, drinking water, medicines, essential goods, and electricity to the districts that may be flooded. The Ministry of Housing and Communal Services, together with regional executive committees, the Minsk City Executive Committee, and other interested parties, must strengthen the mouths of water intake wells and sewage manholes, the dams of sludge fields and filtration fields by March 20, coordinate sand extraction sites, and create reserves of stone, crushed stone, and bagging materials. The Department of Hydrometeorology will monitor and analyze the meteorological and hydrological situation on a daily basis. The Department of Land Reclamation and Water Management will conduct surveys and control leveling of earth dams and dikes of reservoirs, ponds, polder systems, flood protection facilities, and promptly identify jam sites for blasting operations. -0-