Water level of Yangtze River rises

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Three workers put up the frame of makeshift passage through the flooded street, at the sluice gate No. 28 on the up-surging Yangtze River at the section of Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi Province, June 27, 2010.

Three workers put up the frame of makeshift passage through the flooded street, at the sluice gate No. 28 on the up-surging Yangtze River at the section of Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi Province, June 27, 2010. The water level on the trunk stream of the Yangtze River in the Jiujiang section rose to 20.18 meters by 19 o'clock on the day, 0.18 meters above the alert level, with a corresponding flows rate as quick as 40,300 cubic meters per second, as an aftermath of previous persistent strong downpour, for the first time since 2003. [Xinhua]



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