On the morning of Oct 8, 2022, the main body of the Huayang River flood storage and detention area construction project was started in Susong County, Anqing City, marking that the project construction has officially entered the implementation stage.

Huayang River flood storage and Detention area construction project

According to the introduction, the Huayang River flood storage and detention area construction project is one of the country's 150 major water conservancy projects, the project since the feasibility study started in 2011, after 10 years, has completed more than 20 special reports. From November 2021, the feasibility study report was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, to July 6, 2022, the project preliminary design report was approved by the Ministry of Water Resources, and then to September 15, 2022, the advance land was approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources, the total investment of 10.49 billion yuan, the construction period of 60 months.

HuaYangHe a flood storage and detention area west of hubei province huangmei county west dike, east to wangjiang county east dike, QiuLingGang to store in the north, south by Huang Guang, with Ma Dadi, 40 most downstream of the flood storage and detention area is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river, is the guarantee of anqing SuSong region and at the end of the Yangtze river downstream flood control safety barrier, bear the sluggish Yangtze river of 2.5 billion cubic meters of excess flood storage the enormity of the task. Editor/He Yuting