[Reader-list] Delhi in 24 hours

Jeebesh jeebesh at sarai.net
Wed Sep 8 14:01:08 IST 2010


Dear Friends,

Following incessant rains in the river Yamuna catchment, it may be  
noted that the following releases have taken place in the river since  
early morning today (8.9.10) at the Hathnikund Barrage:

5 am - 62,000 cusec
6 am - 92,000 cusec (WYC and EYC were closed)
7 am - 1,86,000 cusec
8 am - 3,30,000 cusec
9 am - 4,03,000 cusec
10 am - 4,64,000 cusec
11 am - 5,19,000 cusec

This water shall reach Delhi by tomorrow noon as the water will not  
take more than 24 - 28 hrs to reach Delhi in view of the river already  
being in spate.

The implication of this level (5 lac cusec plus) of release are the  
following:

a) The danger level shall cross the 206 m mark at Old Railway bridge  
and even reach catastrophic 207 m.
b) Delhi can hope to see the worst floods since 1995 in the city.

The above is of course subject to vast areas upstream of Delhi in  
Haryana not getting badly flooded.

Delhiites can only keep their fingers crossed and hope for the best.

manoj misra
Convener

Yamuna Jiye Abhiyan (yamunajiye at gmail.com)


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