For several days already, the inflow from the Carpathians to the Dniester reservoir is about 200 cubic meters per second, with the average norm for this time of year for the last few years within 100 cubic meters per second.
Nevertheless, at the moment, the water level in the reservoir is still low – just under 113 meters, noted Ilya Trombitsky, a well-known ecologist and director of the Eco-Tiras association, on his Facebook page.
In a comment for Logos Press, the expert noted that nominally the level of the Dniester reservoir can rise up to 121 meters, “but for it to rise by another 9 meters, an unrealistically large coincidence of several important factors is needed”.
First, strong frosts are needed, and there are no such forecasts yet. Secondly, and this is a determining factor, the water flow must be reduced by Ukraine’s hydropower engineers, and this is an unlikely scenario in a situation when the neighboring country is trying by all possible means to make up for the acute energy shortage.
Nevertheless, given the almost abnormal (compared to previous years) amount of precipitation in winter, the spring flood this year in Moldova will be more abundant than in previous years. Although its prospects, according to Ilija Trombitski, are still unclear.
The last significant flood in Moldova was in the summer of 2020. There has not been a serious spring flood in the country for more than a decade.
