Another flood crest of 2,900 cubic meters per second rose in the section of the Yellow River in east China's Shandong Province on Sunday after the biggest-ever flood peak since 1997 entered its estuary Friday.

According to the Yellow River water control bureau of Shandong Province, the new flood crest was resultant from the discharge of flood water from the Dongping Lake, a flood storage project in the lower reaches of the river, with an aim to empty the lake to brace for the possible larger flood.

The flood crest is close to the warning line of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is approximately 2,900 cubic meters per second, the bureau noted.

The flood, which entered Shandong Province Tuesday, was turned into the biggest one for the past seven years overnight, with the flow peaking at 3,840 cubic meters per second at the Gaocun Hydrologic Station, the first station in the Shandong section, on Wednesday morning.

The flood crest arrived at Shandong section's last hydrologic station, Lijin station, at 6:00 Friday morning, and the flow remained at 3,190 cubic meters per second between 7:00 and 10:00 during the day.

The 5,464-km-long Yellow River, China's second longest river, originates on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and winds through eight provinces and autonomous regions, and finally empties into the Bohai Sea in north China.

(Xinhua News Agency August 30, 2004)