东台市位于苏中黄海之滨,以通榆河为界,分为堤东沿海垦区和堤西里下河圩区。特定的自然条件和地理位置,决定了该市洪、潮、涝、旱、渍、碱等自然灾害频繁发生。“八五”以来,已遭受了三次特大水旱灾害的袭击。东部沿海地区,由于及时组织实施方塘河流域整治工程,从而最大限度地减轻了灾害损失,大灾之年仍获丰收。工程的实施,为该市连续两次被评为全国实力百强县(市)、成为全国明星县(市)起到了保障作用。 Dongtai City is located in the middle of the Yellow Sea in the Soviet Union, with Tongyu River as the boundary, is divided into embankment coastal reclamation area and embankment downstream river polder area. Specific natural conditions and geographical location, the city determines the flood, tide, floods, drought, stains, alkalis and other natural disasters occur frequently. Since the Eighth Five-Year Plan, three major floods and droughts have hit China. In the eastern coastal areas, due to the timely organization and implementation of the Fangtang River Basin renovation project to minimize the disaster losses, the catastrophe year is still bumper harvest. The implementation of the project for the city twice as the national strength hundred counties (cities), became the star county (city) played a protective role.