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Yamuna swells, flood threat increases in Delhi
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 01:54:34 PM,
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Many parts of north India, including the capital, were threatened
by floods Monday as a swollen Yamuna threatened to overflow its
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New Delhi:
The water level of the Yamuna river continued to rise at Delhi
Wednesday as more water from the Hathinikund barrage in Haryana
reached the capital, aggravating the threat of flood here.
Wednesday morning the river was flowing at 206.92 metres — 2.09
metres above the danger mark — as over one lakh cusecs of water
were released from the Hathinikund barrage located in Haryana.
According to the department of irrigation and flood control, the
water level is expected to touch 207.3 metres Thursday morning.
A key, over a century-old bridge over the Yamuna linking the
capital with its eastern district and western Uttar Pradesh was
closed to traffic Tuesday as the river water crossed the danger
mark.
This necessitated diversion of traffic to other roads and the
National Highway 24 that runs from Delhi to Aligarh and Moradabad
in western Uttar Pradesh, causing traffic jams.
Several low-lying areas of Delhi like New Usmanpur, Sarita Vihar,
Kalindi Kunj, Jamia Nagar and Wazirabad were flooded Tuesday and
people were shifted to temporary shelter camps.
Over two dozen trains from and to the Old Delhi Railway Station
were diverted to other routes as services across the Old Railway
Bridge — a double-decker road-cum-rail iron girder structure built
in 1868 — were suspended.
The release of water from the Hathinikund barrage upstream in
Haryana has swollen the Yamuna and it is flowing much above the
danger level of 204.83 metres in Delhi.
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