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Flood waves in the valleys of the western region within the Euphrates River basin
2025-03-09
Since yesterday, 8/3/2025, the staffs of the terminal station in Haditha, affiliated to the Upper Euphrates Center for Sustainable Development Research at the University of Anbar, began to conduct monitoring and record the runoff rains associated with the recent rain wave, despite the difficult weather conditions.
Engineer Juma’a Muhammad Ahmed, station official, stated that torrential rains were recorded in Zaghdan valley on 8/3/2025 in the afternoon, where a wave with a discharge of 9.6 cubic meters/ second was detected at the monitoring station of the Upper Euphrates Center at the Zaghdan Bridge near the Ramadi-Haditha road. While the runoff of Horan valley began to reach the center's meteorological station at the Horan Bridge on the Ramadi-Haditha road after four o'clock in the afternoon, to record a wave with a discharge of 4.9 cubic meters/second.
As for the meteorology of this day 9-3-2025, Engineer Juma’a stated that the floods of Zaghdan valley have receded significantly to record at ten o'clock this morning less than 1 cubic meter/second.
As for Horan valley, as a result of the continuous heavy rain throughout the night of March 8-9 and the flow of runoff rains from the upper valley areas, a wave of torrential rains was recorded after ten o'clock this morning, with a discharge of 70 cubic meters/second. The terminal station’s employee confirmed that his expectations indicate that the peak of the wave was at dawn today and through the measuring rulers installed on the Horan Bridge, which indicated a water depth of 1.75 meters, meaning that the valley discharge exceeded 120 cubic meters/second at peak hour (peak) and then the wave began to recede to record 70 cubic meters/second.
The terminal official in Haditha said that the meteorology will continue for the coming days until the wave of floods recedes completely, especially in Horan valley, where runoff rains are still flowing from the top of the valley. It is noteworthy that the University of Anbar, through the Upper Euphrates Center for Sustainable Development Research and within its strategic plan to achieve the goals of sustainable development within Vision 2030, has adopted an ambitious project for meteorology and the study of climate change, and a specialized department of climate meteorology has been established in the center.
To see the video of runoff Horan valley:
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