The town of Matam is now not far from the alert level of 8 m. A critical threshold. In a press release released on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, the Ministry of Hydraulics and Sanitation presented the hydrological situation of the Senegal River basins. "The water level at the Bakel hydrological station, which was at a level of 9.32 m on August 18, 2025 at 8:00 a.m., is this morning at 8:00 a.m. at a level of 9.29 m, compared to 7.14 m in 2024 at the same time. At the station, where the alert level is 10 m, we are observing a downward trend of 3 cm between Monday and this Tuesday," the bulletin reads.

However, in Matam, we are 47 centimeters from the critical threshold. At the Matam hydrological station, which plays a strategic role in the regular monitoring of water levels and the collection of hydrological data, the water level, which was 7.37 m yesterday, August 18, 2025 at 8:00 a.m., is this morning at 7.53 m compared to 5.75 m in 2024 at 8:00 a.m. Therefore, a rising trend of 16 cm is beginning. With the alert level set at 8 m, the safety margin is dangerously narrowing.

In Richard Toll and Podor, the rise is less abrupt. In Podor, the water level was 3.90m on August 18, 2025. This morning at 8 a.m., it rose to 3.93m, compared to 3.71m in 2024 at the same time. A rise of 3 cm is observed at the station, whose alert level is 5 meters, according to the published bulletin. In Richard-Toll, according to the source, a rising trend of 4 cm was recorded between Monday, August 18 (2.72m) and Tuesday, August 19 (2.76m), compared to 2.74m in 2024 at 8 a.m.

It should be remembered that the alert level at the Richard-Toll station is 3.35 metres.

The level of the Senegal River at Saint-Louis, whose alert level is 1.75 m, shows 0.95 m on the scale on August 19, 2025 at 8:00 a.m., compared to 1.15 m in 2024 at 8:00 a.m.

The level of the Bafing at Manantali (Upstream Dam) is 201.51 m on August 19, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. On the same date last year, the level was 196.90 m.

The hydrological bulletin of the Senegal River basin reports that this Tuesday: "the flow rate through Manantali is 209 m3/s compared to 172 m3/s on the same date last year." Before recalling that "the normal level of the reservoir is 208.05 m IGN and the exceptional level is 211 meters."

Furthermore, on the Falémé, at the Kidira station where a rising trend of 50 cm was recorded today, the water level which shows a level of 7 m, 16 on August 18, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. has dropped to 7 m, 66 against 5 m, 52 in 2024 at the same period. On the Bakoye at the Oualia station, the water level observed a downward trend of 1 m, 08, this August 19, with a level of 4m, 97 against 6m, 05 yesterday.