Apa Nova, after the floods in Bucharest

The amounts of rainfall on Monday afternoon in Bucharest exceeded 43 l/sqm, and isolated even 70 l/sqm, and instantly exceeded 120 l/sqm, with significant water accumulations, Apa Nova announced.

‘Apa Nova intervenes with all the teams and machinery in the field, as a result of the Orange Code issued for the municipality of Bucharest. In view of the meteorological warnings issued by the National Meteorological Administration for today, 09.06.2025, and the issuance of the Orange Code, including for the municipality of Bucharest, after which there were registered quantities of precipitation that exceeded 43 l/sqm and isolated 70 l/sqm, and instantaneous 120 and 120 and in the capital. During this interval, a pluvial event was registered that exceeded, in terms of the frequency of appearance, the frequency every 100 years’, the company said, in a statement.

Under these conditions, the provider of water and sewerage services for the municipality of Bucharest has supplemented to the maximum the operational teams from the field, intervening with 20 hydrocuritors, 62 vehicles, 47 pumping equipment and a number of 318 specialists.

The teams will remain in the field, continuing to intervene for the release of the road and to respond to all the requests of the clients and the authorities, the source said.

« Apa Nova collaborates throughout this period with the Road Police, the Street Administration and the Bucharest Transport Society, in order to minimize the impact of the pluviometric event on the inhabitants of the capital, » the quoted document shows.

The capital was under warning nowcasting orange code of torrential showers Monday afternoon for about an hour.