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.

    • @MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fanEnglish
      13•7 months ago

      Ngl my first thought was: Is this a Ukrainian drone strike?

      But as other comments state it’s more likely corruption during construction.

      • partial_accumenEnglish
        16•7 months ago

        Ngl my first thought was: Is this a Ukrainian drone strike?

        There’s video of the dam leak starting and progressing to full breach. It was on an Earthen berm with just a trickle at first during daylight. In the video people are standing on the berm watching it leak. You can see smaller, then larger chunks of Earth breaking away in the stream. Each piece that falls away makes the water surge through faster. A couple of cuts occur and its apparent the growth has continued. The final cut is nightfall and shows an Earth moving machine pushing what I think are large sandbags into the breach, but its a gushing torrent by this point. The Earthen damn is falling about almost a meter each time wider. Finally the Earth moving machine pulls back as two to three meters of damn collapses in before the video stops.

        No drone in site.

  • SeaJEnglish
    38•7 months ago

    Quality engineering there. It lasted a whole 10 years.

    • Admiral PatrickEnglish
      39•7 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•7 months ago

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

  • theodewere
    16•7 months ago

    here is rifle and grenade, you have been evacuated to front lines

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    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.

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

    The Orenburg regional governor, Denis Pasler, said specialists assessed that the dam was built “for a different weight” and that the level of rainfall was “exceptional”.

    Authorities said the situation was difficult throughout the region, warning of a dangerous water level on the Ural river in the main city of Orenburg.

    “There is no time for convincing,” he added, saying that “those who refuse to leave the danger zone voluntarily, we will forcibly evacuate with the help of police officers”.

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