Presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Viktor Ishayev yesterday held a meeting on the implementation of measures for the prevention and elimination of consequences of floods. The reports of the President of Yakutia, governor of Primorye, Khabarovsk, Amur and Jewish Autonomous Oblast, the head of the Far Eastern regional center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, the head of the Far Eastern Management Hydromet. Total flooding in Khabarovsk, Amur and Jewish Autonomous Region was flooded 185 towns, 9499 residential units, 13787 home gardens, dachas 3763374 public facilities, 611 miles of roads, 566806 hectares of agricultural land with crops. From the executive presidential envoy demanded urgently address the issue of resettlement of people left homeless. Viktor Ishayev suggested the possibility of resettling people in motels, hostels and uninhabited buildings. In addition, Victor Ishayev demanded that the regional authorities to organize holidays for children evacuated from flooded areas. According to him, only the Primorsky Territory is ready to take over two thousand children. The meeting discussed the grave situation prevailing in the village of Lenin\’s Jewish Autonomous Region. Plenipotentiary powers entrusted to organize the Emergency helicopters delivering soil to strengthen the dam in the village, detached from the ground. In addition, the helicopters will be airlifted to the village of about 200 emergency workers for rescue work. Authorities of the Khabarovsk Territory, Viktor Ishayev instructed to ensure smooth operation of the highway Khabarovsk — Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Speaking about the problems related to the prevention of floods in the future, the envoy said that after the flood this year, all efforts must be directed at the construction of capital waterworks. Work must be organized on home insurance and work with science, which is to provide long-term projections of global warming.
Eugene Zhitnikova, RIA «VladNews»