Thursday, June 2, 2016

Procedure terminated extreme weather in the region limited disruption of water – Eindhoven Dagblad

REGION – To 19:42 pm the procedure extreme weather in the Southeast Brabant region ended. This was in effect from 16:43 hours. With the amount of rain fell in the region note: there came Thursday at the end of the afternoon and early evening reports of flooding.
 

This came from Someren (Keizerstraat) Deurne (Van Gils Street) and Heeze (Nieuwendijk and recreation Heezerenbosch). Around 21:00 pm there was a report of flooding in De Waal Arch, the Convent Retirement Sacred Heart in Asten. Also Avenne Avenue in Someren was Thursday talk of floods.

A spokesman for the fire department reported around 18:30 too bad the flooding in the region. “We are now mainly engaged in follow-up care, such as in people who have water in the basement were standing by the rain on Wednesday. In the north of Brabant is the inconvenience it a lot.”

De Dommel Water Board has High water levels and flow rates immediately closed the waterways in the region. Employees of De Dommel water board keep the critical points, such as weirs and culverts closely watched. Branches and other debris are removed so that all the water can flow without hindrance. The water board reports that decreases the oxygen content in the water, by among other things be stirred from the bottom. This has consequences for the fish. Here and there the water board has observed fish kills, but is expected to level problems persist, the impact on fish will be bigger. Dead fish are cleaned up.

In one night of June 2 was a lot of precipitation in the region, especially in the area of ​​Asten Deurne. There there was 70 millimeters of rain in three hours. Aa and Maas Water take additional measures to reduce flooding and to drain the water as well and as quickly as possible. Thursday morning, the barrages put down to create a buffer for the drainage of water.

In North Brabant and Limburg true Thursday code orange because of possible thunderstorms. Locally there may be lots of rain falling in a short time. Especially in northern Limburg and eastern Brabant can cause nuisance, KNMI reported.

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