HYDERABAD: Two pump homes under the Kaleshwaram preserve irrigation challenge had been submerged in floodwaters of the Godavari in Mahadevpur mandal of Bhupalpally district on Thursday, as heavy rains persisted to lash the recount for a seventh consecutive day on Thursday.
Within the intervening time, the problem on the Kadem challenge in Nirmal district normalised after the water receded on the day, nevertheless the problem in Bhadrachalam remained perilous as the water level of the Godavari touched 62.2 toes, the very most realistic since the formation of Telangana. The recount obtained a median rainfall of 39.5 mm, in opposition to a same outdated of 6.7 mm, recording a deviation of spherical 490 per cent this monsoon. At the Kaleshwaram challenge, the Kannepalli (Lakshmi) pump home that homes 17 heavy-duty motors and Annaram pump home that homes seven heavy-duty motors which indulge in a skill to pump out 2 TMC of water per day had been inundated. However, irrigation officers acknowledged that submersion of pump homes is a normal occurrence and brushed apart concerns over the incident.
The adviser to the executive on preserve irrigation projects, Penta Reddy, in a media assertion, acknowledged that the Kaleshwaram challenge construction works are intact and simplest motors and electrical equipment had been submerged. There’ll doubtless be no topic with the motors and they are going to be restored instantly after floods depart, he acknowledged. In Nirmal district, authorities heaved a deliver of reduction over the problem on the Kadem challenge, as officers and residents spent a sleepless evening over fears of a dam breach as a result of excessive floodwater load.
The floodwater inflow on the Kadem challenge halved on Thursday morning, from 5 lakh cusecs to 2.5 lakh cusecs, and additional declined to 1.84 lakh cusecs within the evening. But, the problem at Bhadrachalam remained perilous, as 19.1 lakh cusecs of floodwater had been being released into the Godavari as of 6 pm on Thursday.
The closing time the level of Godavari crossed the 60-foot imprint was once in August 2020, when it hit 61.6 toes. To this level, 19,071 of us had been shifted to 223 reduction camps across the recount, with the worst affected being Bhadradri-Kothagudem, Mulugu and Bhupalpally districts. As many as 6,318 individuals had been shifted to 43 reduction camps in Bhadrachalam, 4,049 to 33 camps in Mulugu and 1,226 to 20 camps in Bhupalpally. As many as 16 individuals needed to be rescued by the NDRF, whereas two needed to be airlifted by the Indian Air Power in Mancherial district.
Within the intervening time, seven NDRF teams — three in Bhadradri-Kothagudem, two every in Mulugu and Bhupalpally — had been deployed for rescue and reduction operations. Officers are additionally usually monitoring the water overflows into assorted projects. To this level, Khanapur mandal in Nirmal district has recorded the very most realistic rainfall, of 29.48 cm, adopted by very heavy rainfall of 11.56 mm to 20.44 mm in Adilabad, Asifabad, Nirmal, Mancherial, Nizamabad, Jagtial, Peddapalli, Karimnagar and Rajanna Sircilla districts. Between June 1 and July 14, the recount recorded a median cumulative rain of 52.49 cm, in opposition to a same outdated of 22.66 cm, recording a deviation of 132 per cent.
On Thursday, chief secretary Somesh Kumar held a gathering with officers at BRKR Bhavan and took stock of the problem across the recount. He emphasised operations in Mulugu, Bhupalpally and Bhadradri-Kothagudem districts as a result of the alarming upward thrust within the water level of Godavari. Low-mendacity areas of the districts had been identified and monitored on an hourly basis. The CS additionally held a teleconference with the collectors, SPs and diverse senior officers of Kothagudem, Mulugu, Bhupalpally and Peddapally districts. Kumar directed the officers to present utmost precedence to battling the loss of human lives.
The India meteorological department, meanwhile, predicted heavy to very heavy rains for the following couple of days within the recount, following which officers acknowledged that the level of Godavari at Bhadrachalam would possibly possibly presumably fair contaminated the 70-foot imprint on Friday. The CS directed collectors to procure JCBs, generators, sandbags and diverse materials in additional quantities and assign them at strategic elements. DGP Mahender Reddy acknowledged that additional forces, along with equipment esteem boats, existence jackets, etc, are being despatched to the districts to address any eventuality
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