Flood Update VII from Water Initiatives Odisha
19th September 2011
Dear Friends/Co-sailors,
Between our Sixth Update that we sent on 14th September and
this Seventh one, even as flood relief work continues and fresh floods have hit
the Baitarani River, the debate on Flood Management has caught up various
sections of the state. It’s heartening
to note that the key issues that we raised in our First Update are making
rounds in several debates, media articles and in other platforms. In fact, WIO too has already participated in
several such debates and has been constantly re-emphasising on its points with
regard to need of revisiting ‘Rule Curve’ of Hirakud dam, co-ordination with
Chhatisgarh and IMD for an integrated basin planning and management; and the
very fact that large dams are no success in managing floods. Rather they cause more devastation and hence
we need a lot of other time tested interventions to have a proper Disaster
Management System in place. Our urge to
the state government to revisit the “Model Flood Plain Zoning Bill” has also
hit the policy corners and other sections of the state. This we realise from the growing debate on
this and the Chief Minister’s intervention to free encroachments from flood
plains. We welcome these efforts by the
state government. However, we once again urge upon it to look into the matter
in a more integrated approach and cover the entire basin and not just one
city. We need to re-learn living with
floods rather than forcing rivers to live by our rules!
As we write this Update in the morning hours, information available from
sources reporting state government figures say that the current floods of the state has
affected 4318 villages in 19 districts.
38 people have died so far; at least 16 people are missing, and near to
3.1 million people have been affected by this Mega Flood of 2011. The Chief Minister of the state has ordered
extension of Relief Services by another 7 days and the District Collectors have
been asked to submit the flood damage report by 20th instead of the
earlier fixed date of 25th.
This is because a Committee from the Central Govt. may visit the state
any day after 20th. Preliminary
assessment by state govt. sources put the damage of houses at 71,297 and crop
damage over 2.87 lakh hectares. The state
government has urged upon the Centre to provide seeds at concessional rate for
the rabi crop as farmers lost stored seeds. Meanwhile, as newspapers report, 33,000
affected people in Kendrapara, Jajpur, Subarnapur and Jharsuguda districts were
being given food in 120 relief camps. Over 1,200 boats were deployed for rescue
and relief operations, while 2.8 lakh people were evacuated from low-lying
areas. The OSDMA website has an update
of flood damage and relief work till 16th September, which can be
assessed at http://www.osdma.org/Download/Flood_2011Update.pdf
As already informed, we are deliberately keeping the format of this
update very simple and user friendly. In
this update we have the following sections.
The LEAD section refreshes the debate over Dams and Flood control
with an article by Prof. Arttabandhu Mishra, Chairperson, Water Initiatives
Odisha. Then we introduce an EXPERTSPEAK
section where we include an article by Biraja Kabi Satapathy, a Water and
Sanitation Expert, who deals with Environmental Health issues during and post
flood situations. We also have the
regular NEWS sections where we hand pick news from various newspapers
for you to get an overview of the flood situation in the state, relief and
rehabilitation measures under way and also politics around those. We then
provide you with small important statistics in our STATS section that are
useful in assessing the current situation of reservoirs, rainfall, etc. Finally, in the MET SPEAKS section, we
highlight some of the key weather forecasts that may affect the flood
conditions and relief-rehabilitation oprerations.
Once again, we would like to inform you that, at the moment, it’s
occasional and we may come up with these updates as and when we can, given our
limited manpower and resources. However,
with your inputs and support, we are sure; we shall be able to ensure regular
flow of this update.
We request you to send in your reports of activities, your views; and
any other interesting and relevant article, books, photographs, and anything
that you feel we should cover in this Update.
It’s YOU who is the most important FUEL of this effort.
Look forward to listen from you and your continued support.
Thanks and regards,
Ranjan Panda
Convenor, Water Initiatives Odisha
STOP PRESS: At 9.00 hours on 19.09.2011,
Reservoir Level of Hirakud was 629.25 and 11 Sluice Gates were open. 1,89,955
cusecs was inflow and 2,02,664 cusecs was the outflow. From 17th Sept morning to 18th
Sept morning, the average rainfall at Hirakud upstreams was 16.10 mm, and at downstreams
it was 13.88 mm.
LEAD
Simple ways to tackle flood menace
Arttabandhu Mishra
Flood before the dammed rivers and after that have different
explanations. Before the dams were
built, floods were natural calamities but after the dams they have become
manmade (politicians, engineers and contractors) disasters. Flood creators have political and economic
gains. This year (2011) is a preparatory
year for panchayat elections in Odisha.
The grassroots level political workers survive on sarkari thika (government sponsored contractual work) for which
flood creates a wonderful avenue. So,
the flood impacts, which could have well been minimized with proper management
of Hirakud reservoir, were let loose to create more havoc.
Research establishes increased flood impacts after the construction of
dams, barrages, canals, flood control embankments, roads and railway
lines. This means structures which
obstruct free flow of runoff towards the sea.
Ancient and medieval civilisations understood the link of water from
mountains to seas through rivers and promoted communities based traditional
water harvesting structures for massive runoff storage and utilisation during non-monsoon
months. Modern (civilized?) human
banners, implementers used good earth to convert these storage structures
(ecologically lentic aquatic ecosystems) to sites for roads, rail links, parks,
buildings, etc. and invited runoff water into their houses as honoured guest by
plugging the road side drains as disposal sites for domestic waste, both decomposable
and non-decomposable.
Time we think about solutions of obstructing the runoff of excessive
rain water to the rivers and also conserve some for our drought times. Climate change has made rainfall erratic and
cloud burst created flood a regular affair.
WE need to take concrete measures to tackle this at village level. I give you an example.
Let us imagine that we live in a village which has an area of 200 acres
and we get an annual rainfall of 1500 mm (5 feet) thus producing 1000 acre feet
of water of which 20% (200 acre ) would be drunk by the ground and the same
amount by the Sun. So we have 600 acre
feet which flow out. Let us allow 200 acre
feet towards the river for the environmental flow for the riverine good health
and plan to harvest 400 acre feet of water in the village lands, on locations
selected by wise villagers or persons who can study the topographic maps. We can use 10-20 acres of the village land at
different locations and store all the runoff for our utilisation and create a
solution for both drought and flood.
This can be done even without government help by the local youth
donating labour or if they want the govt. can organise political pressure. The 200 acre village can plan its land use
for habitation, agricultural land, water storage, forest, grazing, etc. This is not theory. We can visit Anna Hazare’s village and many
other areas to see this.
I am urging upon the youth of the state to come forward and work towards
these solutions. We need to live with
disasters and keep trying to reduce their impacts.
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EXPERTSPEAK
Combating diseases in
flood situations
Biraja Kabi Satapathy
Unprepared and catastrophic flood
often results in the displacement of people who may find themselves in overcrowded
temporary settlement. There is always a fear of outbreaks of diseases in the
aftermath of flood. Environmental health
problems can quickly arise in these situations. One of the most important tasks is to
improve the standards of environmental health. This involves provisioning of
improved sanitation, adequate and safe water supplies, and a decent shelter.
Common problems found among flood displaced population are diarrhoea, pneumonia
and other respiratory infections, malaria, tuberculosis, measles, eye and skin
infections, etc. Outbreak of cholera in settlement poses a serious threat and
the poor disposal of rubbish also creates breeding sites for mosquitoes and
attracts rodents that may harbour disease transmitting fleas.
Root causes of the diseases
Diseases
caused by poor environmental conditions are frequently related to faecal oral
route of contamination. Faecal oral
diseases like diarrhoeas caused by drinking contaminated water, poor
personal hygiene like lack of hand washing at critical times and by poor food
hygiene that is contamination of food by flies. These diseases can be virulent
in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions and frequently the major cause of illness
during flood. Excreta are the major source of diseases unless there is a
barrier to the faecal oral route. Shelter
related diseases such as pneumonia, where people become more susceptible to
infection due to cold and wet. Disease
caused by insect and rodent vectors, such as malaria, the presence of water
gives scope to the disease vectors, the mosquito to bread. Flooding may
initially flush out mosquito breeding, but it comes back when the waters
recede. The lag time is usually around 6-8 weeks before the onset of a malaria
epidemic.
The
only epidemic-prone infection which can be transmitted directly from
contaminated water is leptospirosis, a zoonotic bacterial disease. Symptoms can take 2 - 26 days , average 10 days to
develop, and may include, dry cough, fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea,
vomiting, and diarrhoea and shaking chills. Transmission occurs through
contact of the skin and mucous membranes with water, damp soil or vegetation,
such as sugarcane or mud contaminated with rodent urine. The occurrence of
flooding after heavy rainfall facilitates the spread of the organism due to the
proliferation of rodents which shed large amounts of leptospires in their urine.
While people’s susceptibility to
infection varies; it is likely to be greater among children, old, malnourished,
and in people who are already weak. Malnourished children are usually in high
risk.
What can we do?
Environmental control aims to
prevent infection by interrupting the routes of diseases transmission. The
number of possible routes of infection means that a range of measures is
necessary to interrupt transmission. Timely, adequate, safe drinking water
supply to settlement site and people affected by flood is very crucial. At the
same time the user must handle the water properly after collection to prevent
contamination before it is consumed. Hand washing with soap and water in
critical times i.e. after defecation, before taking food, and while handling
foods are equally important is controlling contamination. Provisioning good
sanitation facilities must be complimented by health promotion and education,
that people take the required measures in personal hygiene. Experience says
access to water and sanitation facilities without proper hygiene education does
not work. Likewise hygiene promotion is not just providing information rather
it should include the provision of appropriate materials, facility that help
people in adopting good hygiene practices. For example it is no use of
promoting hand washing with soap and water at critical times if there is no
provision of soap. An improvement in water and sanitation often reduces the
occurrence of diseases. Vaccination complements environmental controls and
gives additional protection by improving a person’s ability to withstand
diseases once infected.
We all have our shares to contribute
Numbers of stakeholders are
responsible for ensuring interruption of transmission. Ensuring adequate and
quality water supply to settlement site and people in the marooned villages
need to be made by engineers of Rural Water Supply & Sanitation (RWS&S)
in rural areas and Public Health Engineering Organisation (PHEO) in flood
affected urban areas. Assuming all the surface water is polluted it’s their
responsibility to see the ground water from properly protected boreholes is
bacteriologically safe. Vaccination, control of diarrhoeal disease, early
diagnosis and treatment for malaria are some work need to be extended by health
personnel. The implementation of both water and sanitation measures requires
the acceptance and cooperation of users. Therefore it is important to involve
community from the very beginning.
Involvement of local leaders and volunteers is crucial in raising
awareness, supervision, maintenance and management of sanitation facilities and
regular monitoring of various environmental health measures. Civil society
organisations, NGOs and media are expected to take the responsibility of health
promotion by awareness generation.
Flood results in a serious
disruption of society, involving widespread human suffering and physical loss
or damages. All workers must understand the complexity of the situation and
trauma of those floods affected. Stakeholders engaged in post flood activities
need to be sensitive enough to handle the condition.
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NEWS
State to drain out urban
flood
BIBHUTI BARIK
Bhubaneswar, Sept. 18: The state
government has woken up to ensure better drainage system for the city to check
urban flooding. It has asked the civic and development agencies to take steps
to check encroachments blocking natural drainage channels and restrict illegal
constructions in the flood-affected zones on city outskirts.
Official sources said chief
minister Naveen Patnaik convened a meeting of the Bhubaneswar Development
Authority, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, the water resources
department and the public works department yesterday. Naveen took stock of the
drainage situation and asked the authorities to take the renovation work of all
the 10 water channels.
Earlier, drainage division,
Cuttack of the water resources department had taken the renovation plan of four
channels for which Rs 68 crore were earmarked by the Jawaharlal Nehru National
Urban Renewal Mission. Earlier in February and July, Naveen also asked
officials of the drainage division to expedite the renovation work in all
channels.
Under the corporation area only
30 per cent roads have drains. Therefore, the civic authorities are receiving
flak for waterlogging. The state government asked the corporation authorities
to ensure more drains for the city roads, so that the storm water can be
channelised properly. The public works department officials were also asked to
ensure drainage along with all their roads.
“The corporation and the
development authority were asked to have a joint-eviction squad to ensure free
flow of water in the natural drainage channels. The squad will work in
identifying the vulnerable points such as the NH-5 and Acharya Vihar meeting
point where encroachment on drainage channel No. 4 has resulted in flood-like
situations,” said a senior revenue official.
With 10 natural drainage flowing
through the city, it is found that because of illegal encroachment, many drains
are not getting adequate space for discharging storm water. Moreover, the
Gangua nullah, the carrier of all output from the drainage channels, is also
getting choked owing to siltation.
A senior corporation official
admitted that though still 70 per cent of roads under the corporation lack
drains, the existing ones are affected by dumping of solid wastes by the
citizens. The practice is affecting the flow of storm water in the natural
drainage channels. “There should be a serious awareness drive on educating
public,” he said.
“As the Gangua nullah full with
silt and natural drainage channels blocked by solid wastes and remaining
unattended for years, the water discharge by the city drainage system is not
becoming effective. While the width of the Gangua, in many places, vary from 40
to 120 feet as per the development authority’s master plan, it is reduced to 12
to 35 feet delaying the final discharge through the nullah and causing
waterlogging in the drainage channels,” he said.
Housing and urban development
secretary Sourabh Garg said: “The process has already started to equip the
development authority with an effective demolition squad with high-end
equipment to demolish the illegal structures coming up in the high-flood zones
on the city outskirts.”
In a report Flout rules and
float, The Telegraph first brought the issue of the multi-storeyed structures
flouting the development authority’s building regulations as those had come up
in the flood-affected zones along Sundarpada-Jatni Road.
“As the areas beyond Sundarpada
are already included in the proposed enhanced development authority’s
jurisdiction, it should swiftly act to include the notified areas,” said a real
estate developer. The Centre has already formulated the national guidelines on
management of urban flooding and it has focused on urban flooding de-linking it
from riverine flood which affects extensive rural pockets.
It has sent the guidelines to the
state government, so that the civic bodies can implement them as soon as
possible.
“The corporation and the
development authority should act quickly as urban flooding is different from
rural flooding and at times the developed catchment owing to unplanned
urbanisation can lead to very high run-off with flood peaks from 1.8 to 8 times
of the regular rural flood,” said Piyush Ranjan Rout, an urban planning
consultant.
Retired engineer-in-chief of the
public works department Nandanandan Das said: “Safety of the residents should
be priority of the civic administration and the issue such as encroachment
should be dealt with iron hands.”
Orissa Government
directs collectors to submit report on flood by September 20
Report by Pravuprasad Routray;
Bhubaneswar: The State Government on Saturday asked Collectors of the
flood-affected districts to submit the assessment reports by September 20.
Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik asked Collectors to submit reports by
September 20.
State government rescheduled its
assessment agenda as the Inter-Ministerial Group is scheduled to visit the
State between September 20 and 28, the Government has decided to submit a
preliminary report to the team during their stay, said Patnaik. The final
memorandum would be submitted before the Central Government later, he said.
Earlier, the Chief Minister had
asked Collectors of the flood-hit districts to complete assessment of the house
damages by September 25 and ensure disbursement of house building assistance by
October 5.
The Chief Secretary said through
the preliminary report, the State Government would request the Union Government
to provide adequate financial assistance to meet the loss in agriculture and
allied sectors and to compensate for the house damages.
Orissa to seek 1 Lakh
IAY houses from Centre
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government
has decided to demand a lakh Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) houses from the Centre to
compensate those whose houses were damaged or completely washed away in the floods.
A decision to this effect was
taken at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
here on Saturday. Though the flood situation has improved with water level in
the Mahanadi river system receding, the deluge has affected 20 lakh people in
19 districts.
According to preliminary
estimates, more than one lakh houses had been damaged or completely washed away
in the flood. The Government has decided to seek special assistance from the
Centre keeping in view the distress conditions of the affected people.
Besides, the Government has also
decided to request the Centre to provide 2,000 quintals of ‘moong’, another
2,000 quintals of ‘biri’, 1.5 lakh quintals of groundnut seeds, 700 quintals of
mustard and 200 quintals of sunflower seeds to the farmers in the
flood-affected district free of cost for the rabi crop.
Fresh flood in the Baitarani,
which has affected Bhadrak and Jajpur districts, was discussed at the meeting.
The Chief Minister directed the officials to vaccinate all the cattle and other
animals in the affected areas. Besides, he asked the officials to provide 300
tonne cattle feed every day for the flood-hit areas.
Naveen said supply of food
materials to the affected areas should be ensured. Besides, a close watch
should also be kept on the public distribution system (PDS) and prices of
essential commodities. Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik and other senior
officials were present.
Symbol row erupts on
flood relief
MANOJ KAR
Kendrapara, Sept. 17: The Orissa
government finds itself in the midst of an embarrassing controversy following
allegations of official relief being distributed in bags emblazoned with conch,
the election symbol of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD).
Miffed at the ruling party’s bid
to make political capital out of the relief operation, flood-affected people in
Nadiabarei village of Kendrapara district refused to accept dry food packets
containing flattened rice (chudda) as they bore the conch symbol. Sensing the
anger, the embarrassed officials distributing relief material took back the
bags. Similar protests were also seen in Bandhakata, Ramachandrapur and
Patalipanka villages.
The controversy gathered steam
with former Kendrapara Zilla Parishad president Nagendra Behera alleging that
the administration was brazenly allowing the ruling party to take credit for
the relief operation. Behera also alleged that ruling party sarpanches were
found hoarding relief material so that they could be distributed at a select
group of villages.
Kendrapara collector Pradipta
Kishore Pattnaik admitted to have received complaints about relief material
being carried in bags bearing the symbol of a political party.
“It was an inadvertent mistake.
The flattened rice packets that contained conch symbol have been withdrawn. The
material is being dispatched to flood-affected areas again after repackaging,”
said Pattnaik, while claiming that the symbol also happened to be the trademark
of the manufacturer.
The flood victims, however, are
not ready to buy the collector’s version. “We think all this is well planned
with the panchayat polls fast approaching,” said Sumanta Mohanty from flood-hit
Parakula village.
“A partisan administration has
turned the system into a flood of politics. Relief has become a means of wooing
people towards parties,” said Rasananda Parija, secretary of Patkura Surakhya
Manch. The villagers are blaming the pliability of the administration for the
ruling party’s grip on the relief operation.
“It is surprising that no
government employees are accompanying these relief teams. The relief, it seems,
has been handed over to the politicians without any compunction,” said Mohanty.
The ruling party men have managed
to corner most of the relief material for its distribution in the villages
supposed to be their strongholds.
“The BJD is running a parallel
relief operation having taken over the government relief network,” alleged
Bijoy Mohapatra, former minister and senior BJP leader.
The district wing president of
BJD, Krutibash Patra, however, dismissed the charge as ‘frivolous’ and
‘politically-motivated’.
“Despite adverse conditions, the
government machinery is doing its best. The BJD panchayati raj representatives
are doing their duty in assisting the officials in ensuring hassle-free relief
distribution. But this should not be construed as BJD running the show,” said
Patra.
However, a senior executive of a
Paradip-based industrial unit, said: “When we spoke to senior government
officials expressing our desire to visit a marooned area for distributing
relief, we were asked to contact a powerful BJD leader of the district and
distribute relief under his direction.”
Pattnaik, on the other hand,
asserted that the administration was committed to maintaining transparency in
relief operations. “Our stand is non-partisan,” he said.
Prime Minister concerned
over floods in Orissa
Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh was concerned about the Orissa floods and a Central team will
visit the affected areas shortly for assessment of damage caused by the deluge.
Union Minister of State for
Agriculture Harish Rawat told reporters here that he was visiting flood-hit
areas in the state on the instructions of the Prime Minister and would apprise
him about the situation.
"We have sought detailed
information on requirements of the state to deal with the situation," he
said.
Helicopters were promptly
provided to the state for air-dropping food and relief materials and Rs 154
crore was made available to Orissa under the Calamity Relief Fund in August, he
said, rejecting allegations often levelled by the ruling BJD of Central
negligence.
Orissa's Special Relief
Commissioner PK Mohapatra met the Minister with chief secretary rpt chief
secretary BK Patnaik.
Rawat said he sought information
on loss in the agriculture sector and damage to houses in the floods so that help
under Indira Awas Yojana could be provided.
Among the sectors hit by floods
were rural development, works, water resources, panchayati raj, schools and
anganwadis, Mohapatra said, adding that the situation arising out of fresh
floods in river Baitarani was under control and relief was being provided in
five districts.
The chief secretary has directed
authorities to furnish damage assessment reports by September 20 in view of the
visit by the Central team.
Union Minister Rawat
reviewed flood scenario in Orissa, says situation serious
Report by Rashmi r Parida; Bhubaneswar:
Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Food Processing, Industries &
Parliamentary Affairs Harish Rawat
reviewed the flood scenario at State Guest House, Bhubaneswar and thereafter
visited the flood affected areas of Puri District. After his visit he said to
media flood situation in Orissa serious.
Flood waters receding further in
the affected areas of the state. All major rivers are flowing below warning
level except the Brahmani. A fresh spell of flood has come in River Baitarani
due to heavy rain in its catchments during last 2 days.
4203 villages of 95 Blocks and 16
ULBs in 19 Districts namely Angul-2+1ULB, Balasore-2+1ULB, Bargarh-6,
Bhadrak-4, Boudh-3+1ULB, Cuttack-14+3ULB, Deogarh-3+1ULB, Dhenkanal ± 6,
Jajpur-9, Jagatsinghpur-7, Jharsuguda-1+1 ULB, Kendrapada-9+1ULB,Khurda±7+1ULB,
Mayurbhanj-1+1ULB, Nayagarh-3, Nuapada-2+1ULB, Puri 8, Sambalpur-2+1ULB and Subarnapur-6+3 ULB
have been affected by the current flood.
33 persons (Bhadrak±2,
Dhenkanal-2, Jajpur-11, Kendrapada-10, Khurda-1, Mayurbhanj-3, Puri-2,
Sambalpur-2) have lost their lives in the calamity. Besides, there is report of
12 persons swept away/ drowned in flood water in the districts of Bargarh-3,
Nayagarh-3, Jagatsinghpur-1, Kendrapada-2 and Cuttack-3 but their dead bodies have
not been found so far. As per reports received so far, live stock casualty
including poultry stands at 372.
Report of damage of about 55,044
dwelling houses have been received from 13 Districts. Detailed report will be
given by the Collector soon after the flood water is receded.
As per reports so far received
from Collectors of 15 Districts (Angul, Balasore, Baragarh, Boudh, Cuttack,
Jajpur, Jagatsinghpur, Jharsuguda, Kendrapada, Khurda, Mayurbhanj, Nayagarh,
Puri, Sambalpur and Subarnapur), about 2.58 lakh people were evacuated from low
lying areas to safer places and provided with emergent food assistance. 457
relief camps/ free kitchen centres were opened in the areas inundated and
220434 persons have been covered. Since the situation has improved, many of the
people have returned to their home. As on date, 120 free kitchen centres are
operating in 4 Districts namely Kendarapada, Jajpur, Subarnapur and Jharsuguda
covering about 33,000 persons.
Dry food like Chuda, Gur, biscuit
and Rice have been provided to the affected persons. 1212 boats have been
deployed for rescue and relief operation.
Orissa faces fresh
floods, toll 32
Bhubaneswar: A fresh spell of
floods in river Baitarani inundated 12 gram panchayats in Bhadrak and Keonjhar
districts of Orissa, as waters receded in the Mahanadi delta, with the death
toll on Friday climbing to 32 besides 12 others missing, official sources said.
With situation improving in the
Mahanadi delta and most villages are again accessible by road or waterways, the
state government suspended air-dropping of food after five days.
"There is no need now to
continue air dropping of food and relief materials as water has receded in most
areas in the coastal region," Chief Secretary BK Patnaik said after Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik reviewed the flood situation.
Fresh flood threat, however,
loomed in northern districts of Keonjhar, Bhadrak and Jajpur with rivers like
Baitarani, Brahmanai and Budhabalang in spate following two days of heavy rain
in the upper catchment areas in Jharkhand.
The collectors of the district
were alerted and asked to take measures against fresh inundation, Revenue and
Disaster Management minister SN Patro said.
Six boats were diverted to
Bhadrak district from Jagatsinghpur where the floods receded recently, he said.
Rivers were flowing above the
danger level at Akhuapada in Bhadrak district and Anandpur in Keonjhar
district, the minister said. Sources in the special relief commissioner's (SRC)
office said that 32 persons had so far died in the floods with the highest of
11 being reported from Jajpur district followed by 10 in Kendrapara district.
Others died in Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal, Sambalpur, Puri, Bhadrak and Khurda
districts.
Twelve persons were reported to
be swept away or drowned in the districts of Bargarh, Nayagarh, Jagatsinghpur,
Kendrapara and Cuttack, Special Relief Commissioner PK Mohapatra said.
While most of the people returned
from 457 relief camps, 200 were still operating in the worst-affected districts
of Kendrapara, Puri, Jajpur, Subarnapur and Jharsuguda sheltering 76,000
people, the SRC said.
Dry food was provided to the
affected persons while 1,110 boats were deployed in the rescue and relief
operation. About 55,016 houses were damaged in 13 districts, with district
collectors told to submit damage reports within September 25.
The floods hit a population of
about 27 lakh in 19 districts.
Meanwhile, the state government
said that an 11-member central team was likely to visit the state any time
after September 20.
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HIRAKUD
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RENGALI
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BALIMELA
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MACHHKUND
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UPPER KOLAB
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INDRAVATI
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SALANDI
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97.0%
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101.5%
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21.2%
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95.5%
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31.0%
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31.9%
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60.5%
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Time:1200 hrs
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Time:1200 hrs
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Time:0800 hrs
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Time:0800 hrs
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Time:0800 hrs
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Reservoir Level & position wrt. Full Reservoir Level
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RL: 629.23ft
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RL: 123.65m
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RL: 1463.9ft
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RL: 2747.8ft
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RL: 850.17m
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RL: 631.7m
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RL: 75.33m
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(-) 52.10ft
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Reservoir Inflow & Outflow
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I:157298Cusecs
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I:2386.98Cumecs
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I:267.18Cumecs
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I:57.16Cumecs
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I:121.3Cumecs
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I:140.95Cumecs
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I:46.52Cumecs
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O:157298Cusecs
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O:2251.82Cumecs
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O:49.26Cumecs
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O:85.41Cumecs
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O:23.03Cumecs
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O:45.69Cumecs
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O:1.5Cumecs
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Live Storage capacity & Live Storage available
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Cap:482155 Ham
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Cap:341371 Ham
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Cap:267600 Ham
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Cap:96993 Ham
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Cap:93500 Ham
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Cap:148550 Ham
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Cap:55650 Ham
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LS:467728 Ham
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LS:346411 Ham
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LS:56826.4 Ham
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LS:92623.8 Ham
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LS:28942 Ham
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LS:47442.05 Ham
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LS:33677 Ham
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The RED line corresponds to Full Reservoir
Capacity
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Met Speaks
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19-Sep-2011 Morning Weather Bulletin
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Monsoon Watch
♦ Monsoon would remain active
over east and northeast India during next 2-3 days.
Main Weather Observations
♦ From 0830 to 1730 hours IST of
yesterday, widespread rainfall has occured over Sub-Himalayan West
Bengal & Sikkim, Bihar and coastal Karnataka; fairly widespread over
Assam & Meghalaya Gangetic West Bengal and Jharkhand; scattered over
east Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and east Rajasthan and Isolated over rest of the
country outside Punjab, Haryana, Tamilnadu, Uttarakhand and Jammu &
Kashmir where weather remained mainly dry. The chief amounts of rainfall
(2 cm and above) recorded at 0530 hours IST of yesterday were:
Siliguri-10, Purnea, Jalpaiguri and Honavar-3 each and Varanasi,
Gangtok, Majbat,Tadong, Bankura, Jagdalpur, Balurghat, Burdwan, Agumbe,
Karwar and Mayabandar-2 each.
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♦ The low pressure area over
Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and neighbourhood now lies over eastern
parts of Bihar and neighbourhood with associated upper air cyclonic
circulation extending upto midtropospheric levels tilting southwestwards
with height.
♦ The axis of monsoon trough at
mean sea level passes through Ferozpur, Ambala, Bareilly,
Sultanpur, Patna, centre of low (Bhagalpur), Malda and thence
southeastwards to east central Bay of Bengal.
♦ The offshore trough runs
from Gujarat coast to Kerala coast.
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♦ Kalpana-1
cloud
imagery at 0530 hours IST shows convective clouds over parts of Chhattisgarh,
east India, west Assam & Meghalaya, northwest & central Bay of
Bengal, Andaman sea and southeast Arabian Sea. Low/medium clouds are
seen over remaining parts of the country outside plains of northwest India.
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Major features of weather
forecast (upto 0530 hours IST of 22-Sep-2011).
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♦ Fairly widespread rain/thundershowers
would occur over east India, northeastern states, Andaman & Nicobar
Islands and along west coast.
♦ Scattered rain/thundershowers
would occur over remaining part of the country outside northwest and
southeast peninsular India where it would be isolated.
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Warning
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♦ Isolated heavy to very heavy
rainfall would occur over Bihar and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal &
Sikkim during next 24 hours.
♦ Isolated heavy rainfall would
occur over Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal
Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura during next 48 hours.
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Weather Outlook (upto 0530 hours
IST of 24-Sep-2011)
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♦ Fairly widespread
rain/thundershowers would occur over east & adjoining central India
andnortheastern states.
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Source: IMD
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