Embankment just keeps on state border
The dike near the German town of Hamminkeln by heavy rains threatened to break, seems to love it.
When a breach of the dike the water to the A3 motorway are gone and there would be no traffic possible between Oberhausen and Arnhem. Thursday night there were reports around the dike had broken down, but those rumors were not true. In the meantime, the water in the Issel is to the bags.
About six hundred men was rope to prevent a possible collapse. The dike was reinforced with about 68 000 sandbags.
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Volunteers dragging sandbags to reinforce the embankment at the German Hamminkeln.
Photo: EPA
In the Netherlands one was prepared for the rising waters. So put the Water Board Roer and Overmaas in the night from Thursday to Friday sandbags in the Limburg Slenaken and Vaals. Thereby threatening flooding of river prevented the Gulp and pond castle Vaalsbroek. In South and Central Limburg, most water is now on the decline.