Yamuna’s water degree breaches warning mark in Delhi

Amid the torrential rain within the river’s higher catchment areas over the previous two days, Yamuna’s water degree breached the warning mark of 204.50 meters in Delhi.

In keeping with the Central Water Fee’s web site, the Outdated Railway Bridge’s water degree rose from 203.48 meters at 3 pm on Monday to 204.94 meters at 6 pm on Tuesday.

Additionally, on the Hathnikund barrage in Haryana’s Yamunanagar district, the move fee stood at 30,153 cusecs.

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With a scenario like this, low-level flooding could happen at a number of locations alongside the river however a grave scenario is unlikely, the information web site quoted an official of the Delhi authorities’s irrigation and flood management division as saying.

In the meantime, since Sunday, a minimum of 53 individuals have been killed in Himachal Pradesh as rain triggered harm.

In Uttarakhand too, torrential rain destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that breached the nationwide highways to Badrinath, Kedarnath, and Gangotri shrines.

Virtually all of the rivers are overflowing as a result of rain. In Tehri, Haridwar, and Rishikesh, the Ganga is flowing above the hazard mark, whereas the Alaknanda and the Mandakini are flowing above the hazard degree in Rudraprayag, Srinagar, and Devprayag, stated the catastrophe management room in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun.

Earlier in mid-July, the nationwide capital confronted unprecedented flooding resulting from heavy rainfall, that came about in Yamuna River’s higher catchment areas, ensuing within the river swelling to a document 208.66 meters on 13 July. Beginning on 10 July, the river flowed above the hazard mark of 205.33 meters for eight days on the trot.

With company inputs.

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Up to date: 15 Aug 2023, 10:22 PM IST