[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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