Floods in next three days unlikely though rivers swell
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Despite rise in water levels of some rivers and an active monsoon rains, chances of floods in rivers in next two or three days are unlikely, a Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) official told the news agency Saturday, reports BSS.
Whatever rises happened during past 24 hours until 6.00 am Saturday, only the Surma at Sunamganj and the Kangsha at Jariajhanjail, Netrakona flashed with rains upstream.
Out of 73 water-level stations of FFWC, two were above danger level, 49 points showed rise, 18 marked fall and six remained steady.
But the Surma has started slowing down as rains around it ceased at 3.00 pm, Abdul Mannan Khan, executive engineer of Water Development Board (WDB), told the news agency. It had been raining there for the past three days, he added.
The reason behind sudden rise in the Surma was heavy rainfall totalling 150mm in past 24 hours until 6.00 am Saturday at Cherapunji in Meghalaya across the border.
Cherapunji is the wettest place on earth where it rains almost 365 days.
Its excess water always roll down the hills on to the flood plains of Sunamganj, flashing the Surma at Sunamganj, flooding all the haors or wetlands around. But the water mostly recedes without creating much havoc when the rains cease.
The water rolls down the Meghna at Bhairab Bazar. The Meghna, which also carries the flows of other northeastern rain- fed rivers like Kushiyara, Manu, also carries the joint flows of the Brahmaputra and the Ganges before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
Mannan said the Surma was 15 cm above its danger level of 8.25 metres in the afternoon. The rate of its rise has started slowing down and it would fall down further with the rains ceasing.
Whatever rises happened during past 24 hours until 6.00 am Saturday, only the Surma at Sunamganj and the Kangsha at Jariajhanjail, Netrakona flashed with rains upstream.
Out of 73 water-level stations of FFWC, two were above danger level, 49 points showed rise, 18 marked fall and six remained steady.
But the Surma has started slowing down as rains around it ceased at 3.00 pm, Abdul Mannan Khan, executive engineer of Water Development Board (WDB), told the news agency. It had been raining there for the past three days, he added.
The reason behind sudden rise in the Surma was heavy rainfall totalling 150mm in past 24 hours until 6.00 am Saturday at Cherapunji in Meghalaya across the border.
Cherapunji is the wettest place on earth where it rains almost 365 days.
Its excess water always roll down the hills on to the flood plains of Sunamganj, flashing the Surma at Sunamganj, flooding all the haors or wetlands around. But the water mostly recedes without creating much havoc when the rains cease.
The water rolls down the Meghna at Bhairab Bazar. The Meghna, which also carries the flows of other northeastern rain- fed rivers like Kushiyara, Manu, also carries the joint flows of the Brahmaputra and the Ganges before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
Mannan said the Surma was 15 cm above its danger level of 8.25 metres in the afternoon. The rate of its rise has started slowing down and it would fall down further with the rains ceasing.