Very high, above-level flooding likely to continue in Kabul River at Nowshera
Dadu deputy commissioner has declared a “flood emergency” throughout the district in pursuance of flood forecast alert.
All the residents have been advised to move to safer places.
The heads of related departments of the Dadu district have been directed to remain present in respective headquarters with staff, machinery, equipment, and contingency plan.
“An intense pressure of rain water from the Western side of Taluka (KN Shah and Johi) of District Dadu triggered massive flood, breaches in Protecting I3unds and displacement of people. Apart from the breaches and rising flow of water in Suprio Bend, Flood Protecting (FP) Bend and Main Nara Valley (MNV) Drain at ditTerent locations in the western side of District Dadu has become very dangerous,” it said.
“Besides, Manchhar Lake has also attained very high level and River Indus is also not accepting desired water from Manchhar Lake. Most of the areas of District Dadu have been inundated in rain flood water.”
The flood emergency notification read, “There is danger of inundation of more areas of Taulkas i.c Mehar, KN Shah. Johi and Dadu itself are continuously increasing in torrential flood water.”
The assistant commissioners and mukhtiarkars of the Dadu district have also been directed to line up their strategies and mechanism to evacuate the population to safer places or relief camps.
Very high, above-level flooding to continue in Kabul River
The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) on Monday said that very high and above-level flooding is likely to continue in River Kabul at Nowshera during the next 24 hours.
According to the daily FFC report, River Swat is flowing in “low flood” at Chakdara, Munda Head Works, and Charsadda Road while in “normal flow condition” at Khwazakhela.
River Kabul continues to flow in “very high flood” at Nowshera since August 26.
It experienced the highest flood peak of 336,000 cusecs on August 28 however now flows are receding (today at 0900 hours it was flowing in “very high flood” with a discharge of 297,000 cusecs).
In Chashma–Taunsa–Guddu-Sukkur reaches, Indus is discharging “high flood” with “medium flood” at Kalabagh and Kotri respectively.
At Tarbela (on Indus) there is no high flood situation.
Other main rivers of the Indus River System i.e Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, and Sutlej continue to flow in normal flow conditions.
Tarbela dam at present is at its Maximum Conservation Level (MCL) of 1550 feet, whereas Mangla Dam is at 1184.30 feet against its MCL: 1242 feet (53.62% storage still left).
Trough of westerly wave earlier over Kashmir and adjoining areas has now moved away eastwards.
A fresh trough of westerly wave lies over northern parts of Afghanistan with a weak seasonal low continuing to prevail over western Balochistan.
Weak moist currents from the Arabian Sea are penetrating into northeastern Punjab up to 3000 feet.
The River Kabul was still experiencing very high flood Monday morning, inundating parts of Nowshera and Charsadda while a fresh deluge from the northern parts of the country entered South Punjab and Sindh. The River Indus is currently in high flood with over 500,000 cusecs of flow between Chashma in Punab and Sindh’s Hyderabad, according to the Flood Forecasting Division data captured at 6am Monday.
A very high flood of 307,000 cusecs hit Nowshera Sunday morning and by noon the water submerged the GT Road as another massive flood torrent of 130,000 cusecs from Swat entered the River Kabul near Charsadda, at the confluence of River Swat and River Kabul.
The Flood Forecasting Division reported a flow of 298,800 cusecs in River Kabul Monday morning, lower than the water level on Sunday but still classified as a ‘very high flood.’
The rising water levels sparked evacuation from the low-lying areas of Nowshera on Sunday, Jee News Reported.
Over 130,000 people were reportedly forced to leave their homes. Authorities have set up a relief camp at the District Headquarters Hospital in Attock.
Nowshera district administration first began evacuating low-lying areas on Friday. On Sunday the authorities sounded alert in Nowshera city, Nowshera Kalan, Banda Sheikh Ismail, and other areas.
Jee News aired footage showing GT Road inundated by floodwater, though vehicles were still able to travel through it.
