Publication Date:
Tue, 2011-01-11 01:33
Officials were watching flood levels on the Rhine river in the city of Koblenz on Monday that were expected to peak at 25 feet, 4 inches, and some low-lying parts of the city were under water. Commercial shipping on the Rhine, which leads to major Dutch ports on the North Sea, was banned for a roughly 90-mile stretch, roughly between the cities of Bingen and Cologne, the Bingen Water and Shipping Agency spokesman Martin Mauermann said. Further south, the Moselle river in the western German Rhineland-Palatinate state peaked on Sunday, after flooding several villages in the wine-growing valley. In the village of Zell, some shuttled through the historic city center's narrow lanes on motorboats, passing closed restaurants and inundated houses.
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