The 2007 Shandong coal mine flood was an incident that occurred on August 17, 2007 in Xintai, Shandong, People's Republic of China, when heavy rain caused a river to burst a levee creating a flood into two mine shafts.
[1] More than 200mm of rain had fallen in Xintai, causing a 50-metre breach of a levee of the Wen river.
[3] The Huayuan mine was flooded with an estimated 12 million cubic metres of water.
[4] An official at China.com.cn discussed the fact that signs of flooding had appeared in advance prior to the incident, and that the "disaster was completely avoidable.
"[4] On September 6, the Shandong provincial government issued a statement citing scientists who said that none of the miners would be able to make it out alive after that amount of time underground.