Flood causes damages in three regions of Adygeiya

ADYGEIYA, December 2, Caucasus Times, – Over 600 houses have been damaged in several settlements of Koshehablsky, Shovgenovsky and Giaginsky districts as a result of the freshet caused by heavy rain combined with melting snow, Caucasus Times correspondent reports citing the regional Emergency Situation Service.

The intense rainfall and melting snow masses increased waters in the rivers of the republic, which began to overflow their banks on December 1. As of now there are over six hundred houses damaged by flood waters, Alexandr Aristov, deputy emergency minister was quoted as saying. Financial loses were being estimated now, Mr. Aristov said.

The official blamed the results of the flood on local administrators, who had failed to carry out preventive measures: clearing riverbeds and reinforcement of the levees, what the republic’s ad hoc commission had repeatedly prescribed to do in two late years.

Flood alert still exists in the mountainous region of the republic, where emergency workers keep on monitoring waters of Kurdjeepse and Belaya rivers, which have reached critical point and begun to overflow the banks.