Hyderabad:
The high flood at the Guddu dam continued to attend a gradual drop on Tuesday with a new reduction of around 20,000 people seen in 24 hours since Monday evening. On the other hand, the deluge climbed approximately 11,000 brackets at the Sukkur dam and 16,000 brackets at the Kotri dam during the same period.
According to the division of flood forecasts based in Lahore, the quantum of the torrent increased from 624,456 CUSECs Monday evening to 605,456 CUSECs in 24 hours after reaching a peak of 635,759 CUSCS upstream at 6 am on Monday. The dam discharges 575 706 downstream.
With a moderate push, Sukkur Dam 571,800 Cuses, against 560,890 Cuses one day. Similarly, reading 284,325 Cusecases increased to 300,853 brackets at the Kotri dam. The first dam publishes 518 120 Cuses and the 289,098 Cuses downstream.
The Sindh government said that it has prepared to face a super flood of 900,000 or more brackets, citing warnings of 1.1 million floods of CUSECs received from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). However, GUDDU recorded a highest point of 635,759 CUSECs this year. This level seems unlikely to show an increase because the water level in the rivers of Punjab has constantly dropped.
Tuesday evening, the Panjnad dam unleashed 211,384 Cuses and Taunsa Dam 141 908 Cuses to the Sindh. This torrent will reach Guddu before going through Sukkur and Kotri en route to the Oman Sea.
Industry bridges
The National Highway Authority (NHA) inspected the four bridges on the Industry river in the Sindh, declaring Tuesday that the structures are robust enough to easily support flood pressure. The South South Zone Highway Authority, Ramesh Raja, told L’Express PK Press Club that he had led the inspection of all the bridges in the Guddu dam area in Kotri.
According to him, all these bridges have the capacity to resist up to 1.4 million cuses of the deluge. He informed that not only traffic takes place gently on the bridge, but a large number of people collapsed on these sites to look at the flood. Raja said the NHA had installed surveillance camps in each of the bridges and that their civil servants worked in close coordination with the Sindh irrigation service.
The bridges include a 1.58 kilometers long sukkur bridge; 1.22 km Khairpur-Larkana bridge; 1.32 km Qazi Ahmed-Amri Pont; and 1.58 km Hyderabad bridge. He said that another bridge over the Jamshoro and another between Ghotki and Kandhkot are under construction. The first will be linked to the M-6 Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway.
