The water level in the Western Dvina near Verkhnedvinsk reached a record high in 24 hours

April 6, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Over the past day, the water level in the Western Dvina River near Verkhnedvinsk has risen by 13 cm and reached 10 m 55 cm. This is higher than in the record year of 1994, when the water level in the river rose to 10 m 53 cm, the deputy chairman of the Verkhnedvinsk district executive committee, chairman of the district commission for emergency situations, Sergey Valkovich, told a BELTA correspondent. 17 residential buildings in Verkhnedvinsk and 3 in the village of Borovka are in the flooded zone, with a total of 98 households flooded in the district. Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and local enterprises are helping people: some are provided with boats, others are transported to their workplaces and educational institutions. A hotline is operating at the district executive committee for emergency communication. Centralized water supply has not been shut off. Sanitary services are monitoring the quality of drinking water, and no deviations from the norm have been detected. According to Sergey Valkovich, the situation in the district is calm, and no complaints have been received from residents of the flooded households. -0-