In Tatarstan, military engineers of the Ministry of defense of Russia in cooperation with the Ministry of emergency situations and other services of the territorial subsystem of RSES carried out blasting operations on the rivers.
Today, the first blasting works took place in the Republic – on the Berl River near the village of Chipmunks of the Kaibitsky district of Tatarstan. The riverbed winding, while closed by ice, runs along the entire village, and with the rapid melting of snow can bring a lot of problems.
For example, last year a small river turned into a real water flow, clamped in ice hummocks more than a meter thick. Due to an ice jam the water is difficult to leave the bed, so she began to flow and to heat the houses and gardens located in the lowlands. According to the Chairman of the Burundukov rural settlement, the water began to rise in the Berlya river at night on April 10 and in the morning on April 11, 2018 came out of the banks. As a result, in the Kaibitsky district in the village of Chipmunks, three private houses and 27 personal plots were flooded.