Sat, May 26 2012

Danube River in Bulgaria expected to rise by over one metre

Tue, Feb 23 2010 11:18 CET

byNick Iliev

2132 Views
Danube River in Bulgaria expected to rise by over one metre

The Danube in Bulgaria

Photo: Nadezdha Chipeva

The level of the Danube River is expected to rise by one metre on the entire length of its stretch in Bulgaria, reaching over six metres, Bulgarian media reported.

As such, areas around Rousse as well as certain villages could be threatened by flooding.

In the northeastern city of Rousse, on the frontier with Romania, the water level overnight rose by 73cm. Authorities are expecting it to rise further still, reaching 106cm in total. In places around Rousse, the Danube will peak at over eight metres.

The last time this occurred, in 2006, a large part of the Rousse pier and docks were under water, Dnevnik daily said.

In the upper parts of the the Danube, in Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia, the water is also expected to rise but not at the same level as in Bulgaria and Romania.

Average temperatures for Bulgaria will range between 8 and 13C while in Sofia they will be about 8C, the Bulgarian meteorological service said on February 23 2010.

Rain is expected later on in western Bulgaria and in the mountains above 1500m it will snow.

Along the Black Sea coast, temperatures will be about 10C, accompanied by mild to moderate southerly winds and heavy cloud cover,  although rain is not expected, the report said.

  • Print
  • Send via email
  • Translate to
  • Share:

To post comments, please, Login or Register.


Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.

Levels of Bulgarian section of Danube River continuing to rise – reports

Hundreds of acres of farmland, basements of houses underwater.

Lake Ohrid overflowing, floodwaters in Bulgaria receding

Parts of the Macedonian city of Ohrid have been flooded by the overflowing lake, while in eastern Bulgaria, levels in swollen rivers are going down, while more rain is forecast.

Olympic fiasco

Not the finest of games by all accounts.

More in this category

Saab awarded $2.4M military training equipment contract in Bulgaria

The funding is provided under the foreign military sales programme of the US army's Program Executive Office of Simulation, Training and Instrumentation.

Two Brits fined for hooliganism in Bulgaria’s Veliko Turnovo

The UK nationals were arrested after throwing beer bottles at people after being refused entry to a restaurant that had closed for the night.

Tourism: Bulgaria to spend 300M leva on restoring castles, ancient sites

Restoration and development projects include Madara Horseman, Arbanassi fortress, Magura cave.

Sovereign Order of Malta assists hospital in Bulgaria’s Iskrets

Simeon Saxe-Coburg and his spouse Margarita opened a new heating and insulation system at the Tsar Ferdinand Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases in Iskrets, a project implemented thanks to the Embassy of the Sovereign Order of Malta in Sofia and the Nando Peretti Foundation.

Bulgarian Parliament passes confiscation act

According to the law's provisions, the commission will have the power to investigate individuals without prior notification and would not require a criminal conviction in order to launch an investigation.

© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.