- Title: Workers seal off breach at China's second-largest freshwater lake
- Date: 9th July 2024
- Summary: HUARONG, HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA (JULY 8, 2024) (CCTV - No use China) (NIGHT SHOTS) AERIAL VIEW SHOWING RESCUE FRONT LOADERS OPERATING AT THE LAST PORTION OF BREACH AERIAL VIEW SHOWING RESCUERS WAVING FLAGS AS THEY CELEBRATE AFTER OPERATION RESCUERS IN DINGHIES AND WAVING FLAGS AS THEY CELEBRATE VARIOUS OF FRONT LOADER OPERATING LAKE WATER SPLASHING AGAINST DIKE VARIOUS OF T
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- Keywords: China Dongting Lake Hunan breach dike rainfall weather
- Location: HUARONG, HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
- City: HUARONG, HUNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
- Country: China
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Disaster/Accidents,Floods
- Reuters ID: LVA001730709072024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: China completed sealing a breached dike at China's second-largest freshwater lake in the south of the country on Monday (July 8) evening, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported.
On Friday (July 5), the 226-metre (740-foot) stretch of dike breached at Dongting Lake in Hunan province. Ships and excavators were deployed to fill the breached dike with rocks and boulders.
After the breach was sealed, it would take about two weeks to remove 210 million cubic metres of water outside the lake’s dike, CCTV added.
Heavy rainfall pounded parts of Hunan province earlier this week, causing the Miluo River in Pingjiang county to swell to its highest in 70 years.
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