Floods on the river Schwarze Elster (Germany) 2010

On September 30, 2010, heavy rainfall caused a dam to breach on the river Schwarze Elster near the village of Meuselko in the Wittenberg district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. As a result of this fields and forests were flooded. The water threatened to destabilize other dykes in the region. ZKI provides Reference and Flood Maps in the framework of the GMES Emergency Response project SAFER with funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme.