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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]
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).
Since the Swabian Alb is largely shaped of porous limestone, and since the Rhine's level is much lower than the Danube's, today subsurface rivers carry much water from the Danube to the Rhine. On many days in the summer, when the Danube carries little water, it completely sinks into these underground channels at two locations in the Swabian Alb ...
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.
With the lagoons of Razim–Sinoe (1,015 km 2 or 392 sq mi with 865 km 2 or 334 sq mi water surface), located south of the main delta, the total area of the Danube Delta is 5,165 km 2 (1,994 sq mi). The Razim–Sinoe lagoon complex is geologically and ecologically related to the delta proper; the combined territory is listed as a World Heritage ...
The historic center of Passau, where the Danube, Inn and Ilz converge, was underwater on 1 June 2013, [19] with the water levels reaching 12.85 m (42.2 ft), overflowing the highest recorded historic flood level. [33] [34] After a dike failed near the town of Deggendorf, water levels rose to a record-breaking eight metres (26 ft). The town ...
The project started in 1964 as a joint-venture between the governments of Romania and Yugoslavia for the construction of a major dam on the Danube River which would serve both countries. At the time of completion in 1972, it was the 10th largest hydroelectric power stations in the world with twelve Kaplan turbines generating 2,052 MW , divided ...
In Vienna, the Danube river up until 1870, was almost totally unregulated. The river flowed through wetlands on the left (east) bank of today's Danube course. Villages like Jedlesee, Floridsdorf and Stadlau that were near the former main branch of the Danube were particularly susceptible to flooding.