After heavy rainfall, a dam in southwest Poland overflowed. “The dam in Miedzygorze is overflowing. Although water has been released, it has reached its highest level! The water inflow is huge,” wrote the Lower Silesian municipality of Bystryca Klodzka on X. The situation is critical, and residents of the lower-lying villages are being evacuated, the Regional Water Management Authority in Wroclaw announced.
The dam on the Wilczka stream in Miedzygorze, built at the beginning of the 20th century, is located in the Kłodzko Snębie Mountains on Poland’s border with the Czech Republic. The dam is 29 metres high and the flood protection basin can hold almost a million cubic metres of water. This was not enough during the flood of 1997 – the water overflowed the dam then too.
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