... Today length of the channel is 210 m, width from 100 to 150 m, including on a bottom from 80 to 130. Depth the proran of 23 m, including 5 m is lower than a water surface, current speed more than 10 m/s on an entrance, 18-20 m/s at the exit, the volume of 1.4 thousand cubic meters per second.
... On January 11 the first landing of the Ministry of Defence landed on the bank of a reservoir. The task to set up the field camp was primary for that group of the servicemen. As a result the summary group which was headed by the head of department of railway troops of the Eastern Military District major general Andrey Kozlov in several days reported that the field camp is ready. And not some a field camp collected at random, but a very thorough ...
... There is a degradation and the collapse of coast. Blastings are carried out in such a way that the released soil and rock are carried away downstream.
In total since the beginning of the demolition work on the Bureya River about 280 tons of TNT are used and more than 500 sets of cumulative charges are undermined ...
If in the first days loaded helicopters plied only one way, then now they are as much as possible used in both directions. So, it was in recent days a part of the released appliances and explosives (KZ-4 - 473 set, KZ-5 - 394 set, DRP-4 - 98 pieces and also the ATs-5.5 fuel-servicing truck and two snowmobiles) were transported [returned] on the Ukrainka airfield.
... 462 persons, 35 units of the military and special equipment are involved in performance of tasks. From them from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of 356 people and 16 pieces of equipment, including six army helicopters, the "Orlan-10" unmanned aerial vehicle and also snowmobiles "Buran".
In addition, from PJSC "RusHydro" in the area of the task concentrated nine units of special equipment (excavator, bulldozer, shift car on the basis of ZIL-131, PBU-2 on the basis of KAMAZ-5350, front loader XCMJ300, ATZ-55 on the basis of "Ural-4320", two snowmobiles "Buran" and dump truck)...
Roman BIRYULIN, "Red star"
11 февраля 2019 г." [http://redstar.ru/armiya-na-buree-pobezhdaet-stihiyu/?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop&attempt=1]
State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company "Amur" FGUP VGTRK branch
today, 18:00
"We are already in a final stage of works. There is no lag from the schedule. Thanks to dedicated work of our subordinates, thanks to competently carried out calculations, we are ahead of the schedule by almost 10 days", - the head of department of railway troops of the Eastern Military District Andrey Kozlov told.
Maria Gumlevaya" [http://gtrkamur.ru/news/2019/02/11/29114?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop]
"https://www.tvc.ru/news/show/id/154916
JSC TV Center
On the Bureya River undermined 15 tons of TNT
11:44
MONDAY
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
... The latest explosive works on the Bureya River ...
... All works took place successfully. However, pass turned out narrow, water went slowly. Then demolitions were carried out on the neighboring coast, charges succeeded to punch one more tunnel. Between the two canals formed the island, which in one night washed away. The channel became wider. The river went with the flow...
... Military dug holes - wells in soil. It was dangerous to drill them as to adjust heavy machinery closely to the place of a collapse risky - ice could not sustain. It was decided to blow up ...
... The main works on clearing of the course are almost completed. It was necessary only to level a coastal top layer. On it military need about 10 days.
Elena Makarova. TV Center." [https://www.tvc.ru/news/show/id/154916]
Comment.
"Between the two canals formed the island, which in one night washed away". Reminds some authoritative intellectual interviews a little ...
2) The addition to data on dynamics of a situation on (former) natural dam, (former) spontaneous reservoir and adjacent territories.
"JSC BROADCASTING COMPANY RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES ZVEZDA
In Khabarovsk Krai estimated work of military engineers on the Bureya River
Lina Davydova
15:33 11.02.2019
... Actions of military engineers were already estimated by locals. In the village of Chekunda the effect of the done work was felt practically at once. Employees of a local meteorological station measure water level twice a day. The river recedes from the village so quickly that nobody remembers about evacuation now.
"After punched this blockage, water began to fall promptly. Water to leave very strongly. The level of water decreased more than 1 meter 20 centimeters a little more than a day, "- told the" Star " employee weather station Vladimir Glovatsky...
... The military operation on the Bureya River is called unprecedented already now. Never before and anywhere in the world the army so quickly and successfully liquidated natural disasters." [https://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201902111439-7g35.htm]
Comment.
According to Wikipedia, the inhabitants of Chekunda had to "remember" about the "evacuation" even when the river was not blocked by the natural dam:"During the history of existence Chekunda survived several floods of of Bureya. In the summer of 1975 there was a major flood, because of which the village was moved 7 kilometers upstream."
February 11, 2019 17:55
Translation from Russian into English: February 11, 2019 18:39.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Рассказ об интересе к Бурейской теме вечером 11 февраля 2019 г.".