10 Districts In Odisha Put On High Alert As Water Level In Mahanadi River Rises Significantly
Reports said that the floodwater has already entered some low-lying areas of Khurda and Cuttack districts.
Bhubaneswar: The collectors of 10 districts in Odisha had been alerted by Odisha’s Unique Consolation Commissioner (SRC) Satyabrata Sahu after the water level in Mahanadi River extended as a culmination of the discharge of water from Hirakud Dam. The alert became issued on Friday, 09 August 2024.
The districts that had been put on alert had been Sambalpur, Sonepur, Nayagarh, Angul, Boudh, Puri, Khuda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, and Kendrapara.
A senior dependableremember from the Unique Consolation Commissioner’s place of work pointed out that at Eight am on Friday, the Mahanadi at Mundali became carrying a flow of 5.78 lakh cusecs of water. The Unique Consolation Commissioner, Satyabrata Sahu, has directed the district collectors to pay glorious passion to residents in low-lying areas. Inside of the period in-between, an added six sluice gates had been opened on the Hirakud Dam to discharge extended water phases following rainfall within the Mahanadi’s more a greater advice catchment areas.
Water is at present being discharged by the use of 14 gates, with 9 on the left spillway and five on the true spillway of the reservoir.
As of 6 am, the dam’s water level became recorded at 612.25 toes, when put subsequent with the total reservoir level of 630 toes.
Bhakta Ranjan Mohanty, the Chief Engineer of the Water Sources Division, outlined that anything the rising phases of some rivers, there shouldn't ever be a drawing close hazard of flooding.
Meanwhile, reports pointed out that the floodwater has already entered some low-lying areas of Khurda and Cuttack districts.
(With PTI inputs)
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