Flooding continues in Gorenjska, Koroška
Ljubljana, 5 August - Flash flooding continues in the northern regions of Gorenjska and Koroška, the region hit hardest on Friday, as heavy rains pounded the country throughout the night. In south Slovenia, the Sava spilled over as the water surge travelled downstream, the Civil Protection and Disaster Relief Administration said on Saturday.
Domžale
The Kamniška Bistrica rising heavily in Domžale, north of Ljubljana.
Photo: Žiga Bojc/STA
The Poljanska Sora, which flooded Škofja Loka yesterday, continues to flood. The same goes for the Kamniška Bistrica, which caused massive flooding yesterday around Kamnik, Domžale, Komenda and Mengeš.
The situation is particularly dire in Koroška, where Črna na Koroškem, a town in a narrow valley, remains cut off without power, water or telecommunications as bridges collapsed and roads were swept away, according to local civil protection.
"The only connection we have with Črna na Koroškem is via the emergency lines with the firefighters, all other connections have been severed. We still don't know the true extent of the damage there," Alan Matijevič, the regional civil protection commander, told the STA this morning.
"The top priority is getting to Črna so that we can ship aid, people and machinery there. We have to brig them food and water, they are also running low on diesel to power the generators," he said.
Elsewhere in Koroška the situation remains serious in the Mislinja Valley, where multiple bridges have collapsed. In the upper Drava Valley landslides are the main problem but infrastructure has not been damaged as badly, he said.
In the south of the country The Sava, of which all Gorenjska rivers are direct or indirect tributaries, continues to swell and is not expected to reach its maximum level for the next few hours.
The water surge reached the lower Sava, north of the border with Croatia, last evening necessitating the evacuation of a campsite in Čatež ob Savi, a popular spa and water park.
The Krka, a Sava tributary which joins the rive near Brežice, is swollen as well but is not expected to flood outside the areas that it typically floods.
The Civil Protection and Disaster Relief Administration said most other rivers, including the Mura and Drava in eastern Slovenia, are swollen but water levels are slowly receding.