Prime Minister Viktor Orbán continued inspection of flood defence work at section of Danube South of the capital 

Kisapostag affected by the peaking of the flood on the Danube was the next station of the Prime Minister’s inspection, Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister’s press chief informed the Hungarian news agency MTI. 

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán inspected the temporary flood protection facility built in Panoráma utca in Kisapostag in the company of Member of Parliament for the constituency Gábor Varga and Mayor Attila Nagy.

Representatives of the water authority informed the Prime Minister that in the settlement a flood protection defence line of the width of two sand bags and of the height of four sand bags was built on a section of 500 metres, protecting some 150 residents of 50 buildings. 

Local volunteers as well as volunteers from neighbouring settlements, including Mezőfalva and Baracs took part in the building of the flood protection facility under the technical supervision of water management experts. 

The flood protection facility is coping well with the pressure, and the participants of the defence effort, too, are doing an excellent job during the peaking of the Danube in the region, the report read.