Radu Cazacu, vice director of Moldova’s Water Agency, said they worked intensely on the reinforcement of levees in Palanca, Crocmaz and Talmaza villages of Ștefan Vodă district and there are no risks of floods at present.

Contacted by IPN for details, Radu Cazacu said there was a danger in Palanca village, where a levee section generated concern. But intense reinforcement work was done on the levee for two days and the danger was overcome. Similar works are now performed in Crocmaz and Talmaza.

The General Inspectorate for Emergencies said a field camp will be set up near Crocmaz to manage the situation, execute levee reinforcement works, clear the areas for strengthening the levees and strictly monitor the risk prevention works. There will be over 200 representatives of the armed forces, carabineers, rescuers and employees of competent agencies at the camp.

The volume of discharges from the Dnestrovsk acumination lake on the Nistru River was increased from 700 to 1,100 cumecs. The levees can resists a discharged volume of at most 2,600 cumecs.

Two days ago, the ferry border crossing points “Cosăuți-Iampoli” and “Soroca-Tsekinovka” stopped work on a temporary basis owing to the higher level of water in the Nistru River following the heavy rain that fell in the Carpathian Mountains.