A year ago, on September 13, 2024, increasingly alarming announcements about the flood threat were reaching Bolesławiec and Bolesławiec County.
The Genoa Low, which brought very intense and heavy rainfall to the Czech Republic and Poland, caused rivers in mountainous areas to burst their banks and the reservoir in Pilchowice to overflow.
Over the next few days, the warnings for our region materialized. A flood swept through the city, county and region.
The Bóbr River began to overflow its banks. In Bolesławiec, areas near the viaduct, the meadows between Mostowa Street and the viaduct, the meadows by the bridge on Zgorzelecka Street, and Rajska Street with the nearby stadium, as well as Spacerowa Street, were flooded. The footbridge over the Bóbr was also damaged.
See photos of the flooded stadium on Rajska Street:
See photos of the flooded Bóbr riverside boulevard:
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Plots of land and some properties were flooded. Along the river, near the buildings, people fought to save other residential buildings.
People stacked sandbags. The fight to save homes continued, among other places, on Kraszewskiego Street in Bolesławiec:
The bridge on Zgorzelecka Street was closed, followed by the bridge on Mostowa Street.
However, the towns in Bolesławiec County suffered more than Bolesławiec itself. The disaster damaged several county roads, including one in Kraszowice (the bridge). It breached levees and flooded homes and farms in Krępnica, Stara Oleszna, Parkoszów and Trzebień.
See the landscape after the flood wave passed through the so-called Falklands:
The situation began returning to normal after September 18. After September 20, the major cleanup began.
You can find more material about last year's flood in the istotne.pl archive