Specialists studying area hit by flood in Mestia, Svaneti [Video]
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Geologists and employees of Svaneti Hydro, a company which constructed HPPs Mestiachala 1 and Mestiachala 2 in 2018, will study the area hit by severe flood in Mestia, the Georgian region of Svaneti last night.
The Mestiachala River overflowed last night, which was followed by severe surges in the ravine where the HPP Mestiachala 1 is located.
Specialists report the HPP Mestiachala also faced flooding, but worked as a barrier and protected the local population from natural disaster.
See the heavy flood here, in the video by Salome Ratiani:
Neither HPP Mestiachala 2 nor the settled area around the plant were affected by the flood.
The National Environment Agency reports the July 25 disaster in Mestia Municipality was caused by high precipitation and glacier melting.
The surges hit the infrastructural facilities three times. Losses in damage are currently being calculated and will be reported later.
The total installed capacity of Mestiachala 1 and Mestiachala 2 is 50MW.
Heavy rain has hit Akhmeta and Lagodekhi municipalities in Kakheti region. About 1000 hectares of fruit trees and vineyards were damaged as the water level in River Alazani increased.
The ice collapsed about 400 meters away from the glacier tongue yesterday and caused a large amount of water in the valley threatening the nearest rivers to flood. Specialists from the National Environmental Agency suggest that the collapse has been caused by the intense melting of the glacier during summer.
A new Hydro Power Plant (HPP) will be built in northern Georgia to increase the country’s power generation.
Two new hydropower plants (HPP) will be built in Georgia’s Svaneti region to increase the country’s power generation capacity. The construction of Mestiachala HPP 1 and Mestiachala HPP 2 started today on the river Mestiachala in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.
The National Environmental Agency of Georgia will be able to monitor natural disasters with new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Professionals from Georgia’s Emergency Management Service on Monday discovered the body of a tourist amid rescue works underway in the flood-hit north-eastern mountainous Pshavi province.