Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Kakhovka reservoir has reached 'dead pool' only two days after its dam was breached, and is no longer able to supply settlements or the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. It's expected to stabilise at a drastically lower depth and to shrink the Dnipro's width by kilometers.⬇️

2/ The head of Ukraine's hydroelecticity provider, Ukrhydroenergo, has said that as of the evening of Thursday 8 June, the reservoir has reached a depth of 12.5 metres (41 ft). This is 20 cm below the point known as 'dead pool', when water can no longer flow from the reservoir.

3/ Ihor Syrota says that water can now no longer flow to settlements and the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The water level is likely to stabilise at around 3 m (9 ft). It's dropping around 1 m daily, so the outflow will continue for another 7-8 days.

5/ When it reaches 11 m it will no longer be able to supply the North Crimean Canal and other irrigation channels serving southern Ukraine. At the current outflow rate, the canals' water supply will be cut off by Sunday.

6/ (See below for related threads).

7/ According to Syrota, "If the dam in the lower part is destroyed to the very base, the reservoir will be no more than three metres deep, and the reservoir itself will decrease in width from 3.5 km, as it was before the explosion, to 1-1.2 km ...

8/ "... meaning the Dnipro riverbed will return to how it was before the construction of the reservoir itself."

9/ Syrota comments that half of the plant is now completely submerged and the other half is 70% underwater. The earthwork between the lock and the station is also submerged and is being eroded. /end

Source:
interfax.com.ua/news/general/9…