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Nanning Raises Top Flood Alert After Reservoir Breach from Typhoon Maysak

The upgrade signals heightened risk for nearly nine million residents, with remnant storm rains plus seasonal monsoons expected to keep heavy downpours across Guangxi, extending into neighboring provinces.

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Staff at Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, told media that more than 300 people in the area had evacuated to higher ground and that there had been no reports of casualties as of yet. Photo: Handout
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Overview

  • Nanning’s municipal authorities raised the flood-control emergency to level I on Monday after rivers and reservoirs swelled from the extreme rain tied to Typhoon Maysak.
  • State-run Xinhua and CCTV reported a breach at a medium-sized reservoir in Hengzhou that prompted evacuations of hundreds of local residents and the dispatch of rescue and evacuation teams.
  • Typhoon Maysak first made landfall on Hainan on Friday and made a second landfall in Vietnam on Sunday before weakening as it moved inland toward Guangxi.
  • Chinese meteorologists warn that remnants of Maysak combined with seasonal southwestern rains will keep heavy rainfall falling across Guangxi and into Guizhou and Hunan, raising the risk of more reservoir stress and urban flooding.
  • The top alert affects a city of nearly nine million people and raises immediate threats to homes, roads and water management infrastructure while authorities work to move people from low-lying areas and secure damaged reservoirs.