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The body of a 73-year-old man was found in the flooded basement of a family home in Devín borough, [133] and the level of Danube reached 966 centimeters at 10 a.m. [132] On Wednesday, 18 September, the level of the Danube and Morava peaked between 970 and 980 centimeters, in Devín they reached approximately 910 centimeters. [134]
Parts of this ancient river's bed, which was much larger than today's Danube, can still be seen in (now waterless) canyons in today's landscape of the Swabian Alb. After the Upper Rhine valley had been eroded, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. Today's upper Danube is thus an underfit stream.
Polish authorities have filled 80% of a giant reservoir near the Czech border, aimed at cutting water levels and preventing flood peaks from coinciding on the Oder and Nysa, as happened in the ...
Water level differences are 24 and 12.88 m. The original river bed has a discharge of between 250 and 600 m 3 /s. Two navigation locks were built. A bypass canal will handle floods. In 1996, Europe's largest artificial whitewater slalom course, the Water Sports Centre Čunovo, was built on a river island at the head of the bypass canal.
In the Czech Republic, a rising Morava River had put Litovel, a town 230 km (140 miles) east of the capital Prague, around 70% under water and shut down schools and health facilities, its mayor ...
No stretch of land along the river is left open to the floods. The Danube has a rate of flow of 10,000 m 3 /s (350,000 cu ft/s) at its fastest, and 600 m 3 /s (21,000 cu ft/s) at its slowest, in the region of Budapest. The difference between water levels can be as high as 6 to 8 m (20 to 26 ft).
] The cave system of Aachtopf, which is the underground river Danube is, however, probably already well developed; This can be inferred from the tight correlation in water temperatures of the Danube and the Aachtopf spring, which matches the behaviour of an underground river better than that of a branching system. [citation needed]
During the floods, approximately 11,000 buildings were in danger of flood damage, 32,000 people were threatened by the water, and 1.72 square kilometres (475 acres) of land were actually under water. Officials also placed most of the area near the Danube under a Level 3 Alert (on a 3-level scale).