Floods and torrential rains in the northern countryside of Hasaka

Al-Hasakah-Sana

Heavy rains in Al-Hasakeh governorate this evening led to floods of wadis and torrential rains feeding the Al-Jawadiya dam and Bab Al-Hadid in the northern countryside.

In a statement to a SANA reporter, between the Director of Water Resources, Engineer Abdul Razzaq Al-Awak, that the torrential floods and floods amounted to 500 cubic meters per second, indicating that the Directorate has mobilized all the technical elements, and the flood gates were opened to Al-Jawadia dam and the iron gate, which number four joint gates for the dams and Ghazara 544 cubic meters per second, as it was opened Vacuums and saccharines for the dams, in order to preserve the integrity of the dams.

Al-Awak mentioned that the maximum storage capacity of the Al-Jawadiya Dam is 10 million cubic meters, while the storage capacity of the Iron Gate Dam is 23 million cubic meters, which are their great storage capacity and floods are operating naturally, stressing that all dams in the Malikiyah and Al-Qahtaniyah regions, which are Al-Safan, Al-Hakimiya, Maashouk, Al-Jarahi and Mansoura, are technically good.

Al-Hasakah governorate witnessed heavy rain yesterday evening, especially the area adjacent to the Syrian-Turkish border.