Amur River water level drops below five meters in Khabarovsk
KHABAROVSK. Sept 25 (Interfax) - The water level in the Amur River dropped 16 centimeters to 492 centimeters in Khabarovsk as of 8 a.m. local time (1:00 a.m. Moscow time) on Wednesday, the regional emergency situations department said.
"The water level fell by 16 centimeters to 807 centimeters in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Hydrologists predict a further decline in the water levels, by 20-25 centimeters, before September 27," the report said.
The flood situation is slowly stabilizing in Komsomolsk, the department noted. Still over 1,000 homes of more than 13,000 people remain inundated.
"Power supply has been cut off from 18 transformer sub-stations. There is no electricity in 17 apartment buildings and 492 private homes," the report said.
Water levels rose by 5 centimeters to 264 centimeters in Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in the last 24 hours, it said.
