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Flood alert issued in low-lying areas

Staff Reporter

Water likely to touch first warning level of 43 feet in Khammam; 1,000 families shifted to relief camps

Nature’s fury: Trivenivagu project in Indervelli mandal breaches following large inflows, posing a threat to Dhanora village. (Right) Minister for Endowments J. Ratnakar Rao at the Rayapatnam bridge in Karimnagar district on Tuesday.

BHADRACHALAM: A flood alert has been issued in the low lying areas all along the course of Godavari in Khammam as the flood level in the river rose steadily on Tuesday.

As per the Central Water Commission’s forecast, the flood water is likely to touch the first warning level of 43 feet on Tuesday tonight at this temple town and may go up by another two to three feet by Wednesday morning.

The scope for further raise would depend mainly on the discharges from the Sriramsagar project and the rainfall in the catchment of its major tributaries such as Pranahita, Indravathi and Sabari.

All the sectoral officers have left for the flood-prone mandals at the instance of Collector, Shashibhushan Kumar, who earlier reviewed the flood situation. CWC forecast, the Collector said that flood level would rise slowly and touch 46 feet by 9 a.m. on Wednesday. It would depend, there after on the local rainfall.

He said that some 1000 families were shifted to relief camps from the villages affected flash flood in Palemvagu. They were all provided with 25 kg of rice per family and five litres of kerosene. Essential commodities have been moved to the flood-prone mandals as further rise in the flood level would affect the roads. Moves were afoot to provide people at relief camps with purified drinking water if the flood crossed the danger level of 53 feet.

Road communication between Bhadrachalm and Kunta (in Chhattisgarh) was cut off for few hours as a local stream at Chidumuru village was in spate. As it receded, the movement of heavy vehicles was restored in the day.

A tribal village-Kondarajupet in Kunavaram mandal was marooned as the water level in Sabari also began to rise.

Ferry operations between Kunavaram and Rudram Kota in Godavari were suspended. Residents in colonies such as Subashnagar the temple town were put on alert by the revenue official and police in the evening.

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