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Yes, it was. It was already unuseable during retreat and there was no time to fix it so we use pontones to withdraw, then blow the bridge completely to completely cut the way for offence of the enemy.
Locals from Kakhovka down the dum tell that water level already lowering, so no any significant changes of water level higher than dum awaited if something else did not broke. Total level fall is near 2.5 meters for now, but reservouir have steep banks, so width stays hearly the same.
In usual war. This war is in no way usual.
Hang on. The river's closest points are at Kherson oblast. The widest points are further upstream. It snakes around going out to sea, and had been dammed. I think there might be some in Donetsk as well. I don't know enough about its channels, run offs, and outflows.
Water levels lowering where. Water doesn't lower in a flood. It has increased. It doesn't change because the geography has changed. The river has changed. Yes it will drop slightly as it runs into floodplains and estuaries expanding. But the water level has risen. The dam has burst. The reservoir, is one of the largest in the World, and it will drop to a point below dammed, but likely not significant enough to drive vehicles across. Those points were in few places, and they weren't the main waterways, bridged? Now however the river has expanded.
Upstream is dammed. This is where there might possibly be Ukrainian meddling, by releasing dams and allowing more water downstream. However the river is at its widest, much of upstream, and there are still many active bridges crossing it regardless the further North.
Right after the dam. In Novaya Kakhovka that was flooded first. That means level in reservouir above dum fall to the level where destruction of gates not so severe, so the stream become smaller. It also means that level in reservouir above dam will not continue to fall at an initial rate just after gates destruction.
The flood moving toward Golaya Pristan where flooding began recently.
Sorry, composing, typos, half asleep. A long day, then writing hundreds of words.
Is this the Russian held town that had the hydro powerstation that was submerged? Is this where it is lowering from the original torrenting cascade? Explanation, because the river is expanding into the floodplains and estuaries going out to sea. Although won't it be some time before becoming inhabitable. It was at second storey height. Hasn't the river's banks burst and entire houses and cows and cars and beavers got carried away migrating into Kherson's costal outskirts, flooding their cellars with the drowned?
Flooding into its delta, along the coast.
Yes.
Yes, lower part of town.
Yes. and because level of upstream reservoir behind the dam lowered below main destruction, so the cross-section of the stream become smaller, so the water began to flow to the sea faster than it arrives from the breach.
Water level will come back to norm even if breach still be unrepaired. Dam itself hold most volume in reservoir, only water that was above breach streamed out.
So no land will become inhabitable. Most destruction and flood is from the giant initial wave. Hopefully it will pass eventually.