{"id":98349,"date":"2017-04-25T11:05:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=98349"},"modified":"2017-04-25T11:05:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:05:21","slug":"flood-alert-issued-on-paths-of-dams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/04\/25\/flood-alert-issued-on-paths-of-dams\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood alert issued on paths of dams"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98319\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-98319 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Flooding-225x300.jpeg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rains bring flooding \/ Listin Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The executive director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI), Olgo Fern\u00e1ndez has called on the communities below Yuna River to prepare themselves for floods as they open the Hatillo Dam.<\/p>\n<p>He said that they may need to open the dam as it is quickly filling water. At present the water level in the dam has reached 89.7 meters. The maximum height of walls of the Hatillo Dam is estimated to be 88 meters. If the rains continue they will have no choice but to open the floodgates.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, INDRHI indicated that they have had to open the Valdesia Dam floodgates last night although he said that does not pose any risk as the Nizao River is capable of handling a higher volume of water with no danger of flooding.<\/p>\n<p>He said that at present there was no danger to other dams in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2017\/04\/24\/463163\/desaguan-presas-de-valdesia-y-hatillo-advierte-a-residentes-en-el-bajo-yuna\" target=\"_blank\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>25 April 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executive director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI), Olgo Fern\u00e1ndez has called on the communities below Yuna River to prepare themselves for floods as they open the Hatillo Dam. He said that they may need to open the dam as it is quickly filling water. At present the water level in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/04\/25\/flood-alert-issued-on-paths-of-dams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}