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Flood control and rescue efforts at Dongting Lake in Hunan province reached a crucial phase late on Monday night, with a breached dike sealed at around 10:30 pm.

7月8日深夜，洞庭湖的抗洪救灾工作进入关键阶段，晚10时30分左右，湖南华容团洲垸洞庭湖决口完成封堵。

The breach, 226 meters wide, occurred at around 5:48 pm on Friday at a dike in Tuanzhou, a township in Huarong county in the city of Yueyang, which is part of a dike network around Dongting Lake, China's second-largest freshwater lake.

17时48分许，紧急封堵失败，堤坝决堤，经初步勘测，决堤口宽度约10米。团洲垸是中国第二大淡水湖洞庭湖周围堤坝防护的一部分。

Zhang Yingchun, Hunan's executive vice-governor, said more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock have been used in sealing off the breach, and crews had been sealing off 3.5 meters of the breach an hour.

湖南省常务副省长张迎春称，目前已使用了超过10万立方米的块石封堵决口，每小时封堵约3.5米。

Following the dike breach, a large volume of water from Dongting Lake rushed into the Tuanzhou dike region, flooding 47.6 square kilometers of the region's total area of 55 sq km.

堤坝决堤导致洞庭湖的大量湖水涌入团洲垸，淹没了该地区的47.6平方公里，其总面积约为55平方千米。

At least 7,000 residents were evacuated after the dike burst.

7000余名居民在决堤中被救援。

Several local schools have been turned into temporary shelters, housing about 4,000 residents and providing essential items such as quilts, towels and buckets to disaster victims. Professional medical personnel are available around the clock to those who have been displaced.

当地几所学校已成为当地4000余名居民的临时避难所，救援工作组确保居民们有饭吃、有衣穿、有安全住所、有干净水喝、有病及时医治。

"Our home was affected twice. Back in 1996, there was another flood and then this year. I think the resettlement process is now very good," Tuanzhou resident Cai Shusheng told China Global Television Network.

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