{"id":116210,"date":"2021-03-05T10:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T02:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116210"},"modified":"2021-03-05T10:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T02:27:53","slug":"large-ice-congestion-in-latvia-river-blown-up-to-avert-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116210","title":{"rendered":"Large ice congestion in Latvia river blown up to avert floods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-03\/05\/139784255_16149019489361n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Members of Latvian armed forces prepare to blow up a huge ice congestion in the River Gauja near the central Latvian municipality of Carnikava, Latvia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RIGA, March 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Latvian armed forces blew up a huge ice congestion in one of the Baltic country&#8217;s largest rivers that had threatened to cause major floods in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ice blasting operation was announced after the ice jam near the central Latvian municipality of Carnikava caused water levels in the River Gauja to rise dangerously this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the swelling river had already inundated nearby meadows and some local residents reported that it had flooded their garages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lieutenant Colonel Edmunds Svencs said on public radio Thursday that soldiers drilled around 200 holes in the ice and placed a kilogram of explosives in each hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At around 3 p.m., ice started to move in the river, with the sludge floating right towards the explosives. &#8220;The preparation works were finished. As we were told that the ice was moving, we decided to detonate the explosives 7-8 minutes earlier than planned to make way for the approaching sludge,&#8221; Svencs said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ice jam was blown up successfully, and by 6 p.m. the stream was running freely, according to Carnikava authorities. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Latvian armed forces prepare to blow up a huge ice congestion in the River Gauja near the central Latvian municipality of Carnikava, Latvia RIGA, March 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Latvian armed forces blew up a huge ice congestion in one of the Baltic country&#8217;s largest rivers that had threatened to cause major floods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}