Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (NR)
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Mangalore, Mar 24: The engineering department of the Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) has been on its toes and kept on a state of high alert for any impending flash floods or any other problems that may occur owing to unabated heavy downpour in the city from the past few days.
The entire district has received heavy rainfall especially in the last two days. Reports of mudslide on a hill on Airport road was stated on Saturday, March 22 which was however immediately cleared off. S A Prabhakar Sharma, headquarter assistant to the deputy commisioner informed that that no major damage to property or life in the district has occurred despite incessant rains in the district.
According to sources within the Meteorological department in Bangalore many places in coastal part of the state are likely to receive rain or thunder showers in the next 48 hours. According to Panambur weather observatory the city recorded 98-mm rainfall between Saturday 8 am and Sunday 8 am. Water logging has been noticed in some areas due to unseasonal rainfall and with roads and other construction works in the city limits in progress.
Further sources within the MCC state that the existing gangs appointed by the MCC have been asked to keep a strict watch in their jurisdiction and in case of any emergency rush in immediately. All the gangs have been personally asked to pay attention to the problems of their wards.
In one of the houses near Kulai, water gushed into the premises on Sunday March 23 due to lack of proper storm water drain. The city mayor Ganesh Hosabettu rushed to the spot and after due inspection issued orders to the workers to remedy the situation by draining out the water.
In the Thumbe region, owing to heavy showers and increase in the water level at Thumbe vented dam, the MCC has been constrained to open the top layer of the gates of the dam. Generally as a practical measure after the monsoons, the MCC officials close the dam during December and January.
The water level remains at 13 feet (the height of the dam) and overflows until mid-March every year. After March 20, the water level starts falling, but this year the water is increasing and overflowing, sources here inform. This is the second time in the 15-year history of the dam, when the water level stood at 13 feet in the dam as on March 23, sources here added.
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