Cities along the river include : In November 2005 , the river was contaminated with benzene , leading to a shutdown of Harbin 's water supply . The spill stretched and eventually reached the Amur ( Heilong ) River on the China – Russia border . On July 28 , 2010 , several thousand barrels from two chemical plants in China 's Jilin City were washed away by floods . Some of them contained of explosive material like trimethylsilyl chloride and hexamethyldisiloxane . In 2016 , the part near the city of Jilin was affected by a minor flood
floods
2010 China floods
Songhua River