Thunderstorm exacerbates the flood situation on Lake Constance
Published: Monday, Jun 10th 2024, 11:40
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On Sunday, a thunderstorm exacerbated the flooding situation on Lake Constance. In Thurgau, the fire department had to pump out several flooded cellars. In Berlingen TG on Untersee, the road through the village is closed.
Following further rainfall on Sunday, the second-highest danger level applies at Lake Constance. This means a high risk of flooding around the entire lake.
The situation is most tense on Untersee, the western part of Lake Constance. According to the measuring station of the Federal Office for the Environment, the water level there was only just below the highest of five danger levels on Monday morning. Shore promenades, parking lots and garden restaurants are under water, for example in Gottlieben TG and Berlingen TG.
In this tense situation, two streams overflowed their banks in Berlingen on Sunday after a heavy thunderstorm and flowed through parts of the village, as the mayor Ueli Oswald (FDP) told the Keystone-SDA news agency. As a result, the cantonal road through the village of Berlingen is currently closed.
In 1999, the water level was around 65 centimeters higher
Due to the thunderstorm on Sunday, the Thurgau cantonal police received around 120 damage reports from the canton between Sunday evening and Monday morning, explained a police spokesperson at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency. These were mainly flooded cellars.
Despite the high flood danger level on Lake Constance, the canton of Thurgau has not yet convened a crisis team. Compared to the extreme flood situation in 1999, the current situation is much less alarming. At that time, the maximum level of the lake level at the Berlingen TG measuring station was around 65 centimeters above the value measured on Monday morning.
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