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Flood Situation Report - 2005

National Flood Situation Report – 2005

As on 05 August 2005 

In the last two days a well marked low pressure area over Gangetic West Bengal has shifted over Jharkhand and its neighbourhood.  This has caused moderate rainfall at many places with isolated heavy falls over Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.   Yesterday’s upper air cyclonic circulation over south Rajasthan and Gujarat now lies over Gujarat.  This has caused moderate rainfall over the Gujarat region, Konkan, Goa and Central Maharashtra.

According to the forecast received from the metrological department, enhanced rainfall, with isolated heavy falls, are likely to take place over Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and east Madhya Pradesh.  Rainfall activity may increase over Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Uttar Pradesh subsequently.  Moderate rainfall is likely to continue over Gujarat state, Konkan, Goa and Central Maharashtra with isolated heavy falls.

In Maharashtra, a total of 1043 deaths, 128 injuries, and 48 missing persons have been reported. Though the situation is stabilizing in most of the areas, it seems grim in Sangli and Kolhapur districts due to the fresh spell of rains.  The State is organizing hygiene awareness campaigns on cable/TV programmes and through press briefings, for use of alum, and boiling drinking water by the public.

All the major rivers in Jajpur (Orissa) are receding but the situation remains grim in Jajpur. The number of  human lives lost is 11. 

The monsoon is reported to be vigorous over Saurashtra, Kutch, and active over Gujarat region. 

Heavy rainfall was experienced in south interior, coastal Karnataka and Kodagu district. The death toll in the last 24 hours has been reported at 19. 

In Mizoram, a landslide was reported in Zuangtui at Aizawl, causing damage to some houses and the death of one person.

MAHARASHTRA

      Rainfall activity over Mumbai and Konkan region has reduced considerably.  Light rains in most parts of the State with heavy isolated rains in a few places have been reported.

      Meteorological  department is forecasting heavy to very heavy rains in Mumbai and Konkan region within next one or two days

      The flood water has receded from all parts of Mumbai suburban and routine life has returned in almost all localities in the city.

      Water logging in Vasai and Nallasopare in Thane district because of yesterday’s, heavy rains has also cleared up today with water flowing into the sea at low tide.

      River Godavari at Kopergaon is flowing at 493.18 m as against the danger level of  493.68 m with a steady trend.

      Almost all reservoirs in the state are overflowing because of excess rain water fed into them.  1.1 lakh cusecs water has been released from Koyna Dam flooding Koyna river basin. Similarly, excess water from other dams like Warna, Kanher and Ksasari dams has been released into Koyna/Krishna river basins creating flood situation along the embankments of these rivers.

      At Pune, excess water has been released from Khadgwasla, Pavana, Dhom, Balkaudi dams into Mula and Mutha rivers which has flooded the low lying areas in the river basin in Pune. 

      1.70 lakh people had been shifted from the flooded river basin area of Koyna river in Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur districts. 20,000 people have been evacuated today from the low lying areas of rivers Mula & Mutha in Pune district. All evacuated people have been accommodated in 226 relief camps so far.

      The people have now started returning to their homes from these relief camps.  Around 1 lakh people remain accommodated in the relief camps. The total no. of existing relief camps is 110.

      In Mumbai suburban no relief camp is operating at present. 

      The State has engaged more than 2000 municipal employees, drawing them from non-affected areas, for assisting in clearing and scavenging work in the affected districts.

      About 1,000 employees in various affected districts have been called from non-affected talukas within the districts to assist administration for survey and relief distribution work.  Similarly, the State has called up 2,000 employees from non-affected districts for assisting the survey and relief work in the affected districts.

      The State has constituted Teams headed by Guardian Ministers from State Government as well as Guardian Secretaries as Members from the State Administration for supervising survey and relief work in the affected districts.

      Total 1043 deaths, 128 injuries, and 48 missing persons have been reported in the State. 

      About 800 medical teams consisting of 1 medical officer and 4 para-medical staff in each team have been sent to flood affected areas for providing medical assistance and taking prevention/control measures of any post-flood epidemic situation. 600 medical teams are operating in Mumbai suburban and 200 in other districts.

      The State has formed 150 units of young interns of Medical colleges in groups of four and deployed them at various locations in the city for providing medical assistance and hygiene awareness to the public. These teams of interns are likely to be withdrawn by tomorrow.

      The State is organizing hygiene awareness campaign on cable/TV programmes and through press briefings for the use of alum and boiled drinking water.

      All road movements in the city have resumed normal functioning, although at a reduced service level due to bad road conditions.   In Mumbai city all three railways have started operating although at a reduced frequency level of about 60-70 per cent.  All air services are operating at 80-85 per cent service level.

      All mobile and landline services have started operating normally.  Power supply has been restored in Mumbai, Thane and other districts.  The situation is reported to be normal.

      Water supply system is almost normal in Mumbai City.  Water supply system in Kurla in Mumbai Suburban has been restored now.  Water supply system in Shahd in Thane district is also largely restored.  However, water supply system in Ambernath and Badlapur is still affected and normal resumption of supply may take a few more days. 

      Six army columns are deployed in the flood affected districts for rescue and relief operations.  Eleven team of Indian Navy are kept stand by for the same.

KARNATAKA

      Moderate to heavy rainfall has been reported in south interior, north interior and coastal Karnataka. Bagamandala in Kodagu district has experienced very heavy rains (302mm) during the last 24 hours.

      All major rivers (Cauvery, Tungabhadra, Hemavathi, Krishna, Vedganga, Ghataprabha, Netravathi and Kumaradhara) in the State and their tributaries are in spate. As a result, all reservoirs in the State (KRS, Harangi, Kabini, Tungabhadra, Hemavathi, Almatti, Narayanpur, Hidkal, Bhadra) are overflowing and excess water is being released into the rivers. In Uttara Kannada district, 5 tanks are reported to have been breached destroying paddy fields

      The death toll in the last 24 hours has been reported to be 19.

      The cumulative impact of the recent rains/floods in the State so far is as under:-

MADHYA PRADESH

      Rainfall activity has reduced in the State. With rise in the water level of river Narmada due to heavy rains in Madhya Maharashtra, several low lying areas along the river bank at Indore have been flooded recently. 9 districts with 58 talukas and 4733 villages have been affected.

      As a result, 9 people are reported to have died. 12,000 people have been evacuated to safer places and accommodated in 19 relief camps.

      The water level is reportedly receding now.  Most of the evacuated people have returned to their homes.  Now only 03 relief camps are being run with about 1,000 people remaining there.

      The State has established 19 Medical camps in the affected areas to provide medical care and take preventive measures to avoid any epidemic situation.

ORISSA

      Scanty rains have been reported in the State during the last 24 hours.

      All rivers in the State including Baitarani are flowing below their danger level.

      150 Medical and 25 Veterinary teams have been deployed in the affected States.

      The cumulative impact of the recent rains in the State is given below :-

ASSAM

      River Brahamputra at Dibrugarh is flowing at 104.90 m as against the danger level of 104.24 m. with a steady trend. 

      Rivers Brahmaputra (at Neamatighat & Jorhat), Jaibharali (at Jaibharali  NHX) Puthimari (at Puthimari NHX) and Beki (at Beki NHX) are flowing above their warning levels.

      The cumulative impact of the recent floods in Assam is given below :-

Overall flood situation in the State has improved substantially.

BIHAR

      Light rainfall has been reported in some parts of the State.

      Rivers Ghaghra (at Darauli) and Kosi (at Basua) are flowing above their warning levels.

UTTAR PRADESH

      Flood situation in the state is reported to be under control.

      Rivers Ganga (at Ankinghat), Yamuna (at Mathura), Ghaghra (at Elgin Bridge, Ayodhya and Turtipa),  and Gandak (at Khadda) are flowing above their warning levels

UTTARANCHAL

In Uttaranchal Ganga at Haridwar is flowing steadily.

GUJARAT

      Moderate to heavy rainfall has been reported in several parts of the State. During the last 24 hours rainfall has been recorded in 205 Talukas. A maximum rainfall of 272 mm was recorded in Kadi taluka of Mehsana district.  

      All rivers in the State are reported to be flowing below their danger levels.

      Narmada Dam: against the HFL 110.64 m at dam site, the present water level is 115.22 m i.e., overflowing at 4.58 m.

      All evacuated people are being provided with food, water and proper sanitation facilities.

      Relief and restoration work is in progress in the State.

      Power, water supply and road transport have been fully restored in all affected districts of the State.

      213 persons are reported to have died due to drowning, collapse of house walls and lightning and 11 persons are reported missing.

      The State Government has deployed 963 medical teams, 317 medical officers, and 2,211 para-medics to the affected districts in the State.

MIZORAM 

Due to heavy rains, a landslide was reported at Zuangtui in Aizawl town causing damage to some houses and death of one person. Landslides have been reported in several locations on outskirts of Aizawl town.

GENERAL 

The situation in the States/UTs of: (1) Andhra Pradesh (2) Arunachal Pradesh (3) Chhattisgarh (4) Goa (5) Haryana (6) Himachal Pradesh (7) Jammu & Kashmir, (8) Jharkhand,  (9)  Kerala,  (10)  Meghalaya, (11)  Manipur, (12) Mizoram (13) Nagaland, (14) Punjab, (15) Rajasthan, (16) Sikkim (17)  Tamil Nadu, (18) Tripura, (19) Uttranchal  (20) West Bengal (21) Andaman & Nicobar Islands, (22) Chandigarh, (23) Daman & Diu, (24) Dadra Nagar Haveli, (25) Delhi (26) Pondicherry and (27) Lakshadweep is reported to be normal.

WHO emergency medical relief team is in liaison with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and State Relief and Rehabilitation Department for arising technical assistance issues. Also WHO has provided the equivalent of US$11,600/- for contingencies concerning sanitation and disease surveillance. Similarly WHO has dispatched 11 Emergency Kits, each of which has emergency medicines for 10,000 population for 3 months. 

Source: Based on Sitrep-37, 4^th August, 2005: 1500 hr, Ministry of Home Affairs (National Disaster Management Division)