12 Dead, 4 Lakh Affected After Heavy Rain, Flood-Like Situation In Odisha

Forty sluice gates of the Hirakud Dam in Odisha, were opened on Friday to release excess water.

Bhubaneswar:

Fear of flood looms big in the Mahanadi river system in Odisha following heavy rains in its upper catchment locations in Chhatisgarh and an increase in the water level of Hirakud Dam, a senior authorities stated.

Five more individuals lost their lives in rain-related occurrences in the state on Friday, raising the deaths to 9, while 4,15,817 individuals in 10 districts are impacted, Special Relief Commissioner (SRC), PK Jena, stated.

Forty of the 64 sluice gates of the Hirakud Dam, developed throughout the Mahanadi near Sambalpur in Odisha, were opened by the authorities on Friday to release excess water.

The flood in the Mahanadi river system is most likely to impact seaside districts such as Puri, Khurda, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur and Nayagarh, another authorities stated.

Many other rivers remain in wave snapping and immersing low-lying locations roadway connection.

Mr Jena stated that 4,15,817 individuals in 1,276 towns under 54 blocks of Angul, Balangir, Balasore, Boudh, Cuttack, Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Nuapada, Deogarh and Sonepur were impacted.

Over 3.83 lakh individuals in 552 towns are marooned, while 2,757 homes have actually been harmed, he stated including that over 18,534 individuals have actually been left from impacted locations and moved to 106 shelter centres.

After heavy rains in the upper catchment locations of the Mahanadi in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, over 6.9 lakh cusec water is now getting in the Hirakud tank while 4.11 lakh cusec is being released through 40 sluice gates of the dam, the Mr Jena stated.

The water level at Hirakud Dam stands at 625.58 feet as versus the complete tank level of 630 feet, he stated.

Excess water is being released from the tank due to the substantial inflow, Mr Jena stated.

As the inflow at Hirakud Dam is most likely to increase as much as 8 lakh cusec soon, the authorities are anticipated to raise the volume of discharge to over 6 lakh cusec from the tank, Mr Jena stated.

As an outcome, 10 to 10.5 lakh cusec of water is most likely to stream through Munduli near Cuttack on Saturday where 7.04 lakh cusec of water is now streaming and it might cause a medium level flood in the Mahanadi delta area, he stated.

When the water circulation is above 10 lakh cusec, it is categorised as medium to significant flood, primary engineer of water resources department, Jyotirmaya Rath stated. It will take more than 24 hours for the water from Hirakud Dam to reach Munduli to increase the circulation from 10 to 10.5 lakh cusec there, he stated.

The federal government is totally prepared to handle the scenario, the SRC stated including that the state has in the previous dealt with substantial circulation of as much as 16 lakh cusec in the Mahanadi, the biggest river in the seaside state. Collectors of all the districts in the Mahanadi delta area have actually looked out to handle the scenario, he stated.

Additional groups of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Odisha Disaster Rapid Response Force (ODRAF) and Fire Service have actually been mobilised in the locations most likely to be impacted.

Mr Rath stated that heavy rain continued to lash upper catchment of the Mahanadi where about 200 mm rains was taped till Friday early morning.

With the discharge of 6 lakh cusec of water from the Hirakud Dam quickly, water from rivers such as the Tel, Suktel and the Jira will be streaming into the Mahanadi, Rath stated.

Of the fresh casualties, the SRC stated that a person death each was reported from Bargarh, Jajpur, Balasore, Nuapada and Bhadrak districts.

While 2 individuals passed away in occurrences of wall collapse, 3 others drowned in rivers or canals.

The Brahmani, Baitarani, Subarnarekha and the Jalaka are streaming above the threat level at various locations however the water level of a few of these rivers are most likely to decline, the SRC stated.

Arrangements have actually been made to leave individuals to much safer locations in Bhadrak, Balasore and Jajpur, Mr Jena stated.

The strength of rains has actually decreased substantially in the state because Thursday.

Formation of a low pressure location over the Bay of Bengal had actually activated heavy rainstorm in Odisha because Monday.

This was the 5th low-pressure location formed over the Bay of Bengal this month triggering heavy rains in the state.

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