Punjab, Delhi Flood Disaster Management Alert

Punjab, Delhi Flood Disaster Management Alert



It is unfortunate state didn’t heed by advance warning and well as Gods way of telling us Punjab has no capacity to discharge floods when Harike could discharge only 80,000 cusecs.



Yamuna an adjacent basin but less than half of Sutlej and Beas that converge at Harike in the heart of Punjab, released 3,80,000 cusecs of rains. Catchments of Sutlej and Beas received even heavier rains and continuing. Punjab state also received heavier rains compared to Haryana.



Bhakra and Beas are already full and heaviest floods must have been released by now.



My estimation last night of 5,00,000 cusecs can exceed substantially. But in case of Yamuna safe flood discharge capacity in spite of encroachment could be 2,00,000 cusecs but in case of Punjab it is not even 80,000 cusecs.



Thus from Harike Lake to Below Hussainiwala Barrage river must be cleaned before highest floods in history may hit Punjab .



Passage to discharge Yamuna Floods is restricted by Delhi Metro in particular. Boundary walls of the project must be demolished before floods do it. Remove rolling stock and valuables to safer locations.



REMEDY;



There is no way floods can be averted in view of full Pong Dam and Bhakra Dam.



The only remedy now to clear the obstructions in way of the floods so that it may leave Punjab as fast as possible by clearing “Congestions” in the river flows.



Punjab has less than 12-24 hours before full intensity of floods will hit Ropar, Ludhiana, Ferozepur, Amritsar, Kapurthal, Jalandhar- Ghaggar and other drains are already in full flood.



Deploy all the resources to clear Sutlej from Harike Barrage to downstream of Hussainiwala and clear any obstruction on the way.



Ravinder Singh

Inventor & Consultant

September21, 2008



http://www.tribunei ndia.com/ 2008/20080921/ haryana.htm# 1

Yamuna above danger mark, red alert sounded
Several low-lying villages inundated
Tribune Reporters

Karnal, September 20


Half-a-dozen villages and several hectares of agricultural land were inundated while flood threat looms large over two dozen low-lying villages in Karnal and Panipat districts, even as the level of river Yamuna crossed the high danger mark following release of water from Tajewala head.



Heavy rain in the catchment area of Yamuna during the past 48 hours had suddenly increased the water level, necessitating the release of water from Hathnikund barrage of Tajewala Head.



The water level is continuously rising and the discharge has reached 3.80 lakh cusecs, as against the high flood level of 2.50 lakh cusecs. An alert has been sounded by the administration asking people to move to safer places. The level had crossed 4-lakh cusecs mark in 1998, leading to the worst-ever floods in the area.



The flood waters have already submerged Lakhar village in Yamunanagar and Chandro, Hansumajara, Nagli, Nabibabad, Sayeed Chhapra and Shergarh Tapu in Karnal district, and several other villages are under threat.



The superintending engineer (irrigation) M.K. Ahuja said the low-lying villages like Mundigarhi, Behlolpur, Devipur, Nasipur, Mustafabad, Peer Badli, Bladara, Jammu Kalan, Dabkoli Kalan, Halwana, Kundu Kalan, Khirajpur and some other villages in Karnal, and Bharoma, Nangalpar, Budanpur, Bilaspur, Goelakhurd, Tamsabad, Goelo Kalan, Rana Majara, Sonali Khurd, Jalmana, Rakshera and adjoining villages of Panipat district are under immediate threat.



Sources at the Central Water Commission said all flood control stations have been informed and the situation is being constantly monitored. He said the flow of water takes 14 hours to reach Karnal, another 10 hours to cross Panipat and 36 hours to enter Delhi .



Sources added that the danger levels at Mawi, near Panipat, and Delhi were 228.04 mts and 202.36 mts which were expected to rise to 230.85 mts and 204.83 mts, respectively, around 2.5 mts above the danger mark.



Deputy commissioner B.S. Malik said senior officials, including executive engineers and revenue officers, have been rushed to the affected areas for relief and rescue operations. The teams are equipped with boats, life jackets, medicines etc. A team of doctors has also been despatched to these areas.



Yamunanagar: Several low-lying villages of the district were inundated by the Yamuna, even as the water level continues to rise. The administration has sounded a red alert and evacuated residents of six villages where the ravaging river has engulfed fields and houses. Power supply to the affected villages has also been shut down to avoid further threat, although alternate arrangements through generators and other means has been made.



Widespread damage has been caused in Unheri, Lal Chapar, Bhilpura, Kanyawali, Lakar Navajpur villages of the district. Senior officials, including deputy commissioner Mohammad Shayim and additional deputy commissioner Narender Singh, have visited the affected villages to monitor the situation and rescue work.



Sonepat: The district magistrate Ajit Joshi has sounded a red alert in the areas adjoining the Yamuna basin in the district. This is the first time after 1995 that such a huge volume of water has been released into the river and it is expected to reach the district around noon tomorrow, said an official spokesperson.



He said villagers of Gannaur and Sonepat sub-divisions have been asked to vacate the low-lying areas and take shelter at safer places. All the executive engineers, SDEs, tehsildars, DSPs, SHOs and BDPOs have been put on round-the-clock duty and necessary arrangements were being made to meet any emergency.