Flash flood expected in Uttarakhand today, CWC issues advisory

New Delhi: With heavy rain forecast in Uttarakhand, the Central Water Commission (CWC) has issued a warning of rise in water ranges in rivers of the hill state with some areas prone to witness flash floods.

Due to heavy to very heavy rainfall predicted over Uttarakhand on Friday (August 20), there’s probability of rise in water ranges in rivers corresponding to Bhagirathi, Alaknanda, Mandakini, Ganga, Ramganga, Sharda, Sarju, and so forth. a CWC advisory said, in keeping with information company IANS. 

“There is likelihood of flash floods in some of the hill districts in association with cloudburst. Necessary precautions have to be taken for possible landslides and blockages of river flows due to landslides in high ranges of the state. Hence alert may be kept in all hill districts of Uttarakhand,” the CWC flood advisory stated.

In decrease Ganga reaches, downstream of Patna, the river is flowing above hazard stage in any respect stations besides at Bhagalpur, which is flowing above HFL, with a falling development. 

Ganga at Bhagalpur is expected to fall beneath excessive flood state of affairs and the forecasted water stage by 4 pm on Friday might be 34.54 m.

Ghaghra river in Barabanki, Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh) and Siwan (Bihar) districts is flowing above regular with extreme flood conditions respectively with falling development and in Ballia district (UP), it’s flowing in extreme flood state of affairs with rising development. 

Rapti is flowing in extreme flood conditions in Balrampur (UP) with falling development and in Siddharth Nagar and Gorakhpur districts (UP) with rising development, the CWC stated.

Currently, the Kosi in Supaul, Khagaria and Katihar districts (Bihar), Sone and Punpun in Patna, Bagmati in Sitamarhi, Muzzafarpur, and Darbhanga districts (Bihar), river Gandak in Kushinagar (UP), Gopalganj, Muzaffarpur, and Vaishali (Bihar) districts, Parman in Araria (Bihar), Adhwara in Darbhanga district, Kamla and Kamlabalan in Madhubani district, Burhi Gandak in Purba Champaran, Muzaffarpur, Samastipur, and Khagaria districts, Mahananda in Kishanganj, Purnia, and Katihar districts (Bihar) are flowing in extreme flood conditions.

Flood conditions could exist in the decrease reaches of those rivers in the approaching days, the CWC stated.

Meanwhile, precautions need to be taken for potential landslides and blockages of river flows on account of landslides in hilly Darjeeling and Kalimpong (West Bengal). 

Brahmaputra foremost river is flowing in above regular flood conditions to extreme flood conditions in Goalpara, Dhubri, Dibrugarh and Jorhat districts (Assam). Also, tributaries of Brahmaputra specifically Beki river in Barpeta district (Assam), Siang river in East Siang (Arunachal Pradesh), Jia-Bharali river in Sonitpur (Assam) and Sankosh river in Murshidabad (West Bengal) are flowing in above regular flood conditions to extreme flood conditions, the CWC advisory stated.

Most of the dams in Upper Krishna Basin in the Krishna basin in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are having very excessive storages. 

Hidkal, Almatti, and Tungabhadra Dams are stuffed to their full capability whereas Narayanpur and Bhadra Dams are 98 per cent stuffed up. Malaprabha Dam on the Malaprabha is stuffed to 93 per cent of its full capability. Dams Koyana, Warna, and Veer are additionally having excessive storage. 

“Round the clock watch has to be maintained for proper reservoir operation. Releases from any of these reservoirs may be done as per rule curve and standard operating procedure,” the advisory cautioned the dam operators.

For west flowing rivers Tapi and Upper Godavari in Maharashtra and Gujarat, the river catchment positioned in areas corresponding to Nashik, Palghar (Maharashtra), Valsad and Dangs (Gujarat) is expected to obtain good rainfall. 

Hence alert could also be saved in rivers corresponding to Damanganga, Wagh, Upper Godavari, Tapi and its tributaries, the advisory stated.

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