Flood Situation Report : 8
Dated: 9 August 2011, 18:00 hrs
Reviewed by: Mr. Sanjay Pandey
Prepared by: Mr. Jeevan Kumar
Current Situation:
Continual rainfall in Nepal’s catchment area and resultant rise in the water level of the Kosi and Gandak Rivers has raised the water level above red mark and is threatening the embankments in various areas of Kosi and Champaran region of Bihar.
Situation Report on KOSI RIVER
The Chief Minister, Bihar had planned to visit Birpur on Indo –Nepal Border to access the situation on the 20 K.M vulnerable stretch of Embankment on the Indian Side.The visit has been postponed to 13 August due to bad weather conditions. Notably, this was the portion of the embankment, which had come under tremendous pressure of water and the structure could anyhow been saved from being breached. As a precautionary measure, the WRD had planned to dig a pilot channel in the downstream
of the river in Saptari district(Nepal) of the Himalayan territory to re-establish the central flow of water. But the scheme could not be executed in the face of the stiff resistance by the local Nepalese authorities.
According to the Water Resources Minister, Govt. of Bihar --“To a large extent, we have succeeded in easing the pressure on the embankment by skillfully maneuvering the gates of the Birpur barrage, But then it is Kosi, which can hardly be predicted, the discharge in the river on Monday was 1.47 lakh cusecs. Which is relatively higher in comparison to the discharge last year” Situation at Raja Baas(Nepal) at 26 to 26.40 KMs in Nepal region is normal and river is flowing 15 meters away
from the embankment.
Situation Report on GANDAK RIVER
Meanwhile, the Gandak, which the chief minister visited on Saturday, is in spate. The gushing water of the river extensively damaged the newly built cut end nose of the PD ring bund at Koerpatti in east Champaran. According to Media reports-- WRD officials said that small embankment at Patraha was also damaged but has been restored.
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