Water levels continue to rise after dam burst near Kazakhstan border after torrential rain

Water levels continue to rise after dam burst near Kazakhstan border after torrential rain

Thousands of people have been evacuated from the Orenburg region, in the southern Urals near Kazakhstan, due to flooding after a dam burst.

Emergency services had been working through the night after the dam burst in the city of Orsk on Friday after torrential rain.

The press service of the Orenburg governor said 4,208 people, including 1,019 children, had been evacuated and more than 2,500 homes were affected.

Russia opened a criminal case for “negligence and violation of construction safety rules” over the burst dam, which was built in 2014.

  • SeaJEnglish
    38•9 months ago

    Quality engineering there. It lasted a whole 10 years.

    • Admiral PatrickEnglish
      39•9 months ago

      Heh, it was probably engineered just fine.

      But after 5 or 6 layers of corrupt people skimming from the project funds, the builders were probably only left with like 2 bags of Quikrete and some old chewing gum.

    • @Nighed@sffa.communityEnglish
      5•9 months ago

      If it overtopped that’s a management issue not a construction issue (unless they embezzled the money for a spillway or something)