After rainy night, Amdavad water logged in the morning, but normal in afternoon

Ahmedabad, 30 July, 2014

The city of Ahmedabad had 9.62 inch rainfall between 2.00 pm on 29th of July and 9.00 am on 30th of July.

The rainfall during the night was constant and in full force. This caused water logging in several low lying areas and closure of some of the under bridges. As many as 51 roads in entire cities were water logged and not accesible for vehicular traffic by 9.00 am.

In city’s west zone the measurement of shower was 12.03 inch while in east zone it was 10.61 inch.

The Municipal Commissioner said a decision was taken for closure of schools to cut down the traffic on water logged roads.

Heavy shower was also experienced in Gandhinagar, Kadi, Mehsana and parts of south Gujarat.

City’s Parimal under bridge was closed between 2.15-8.00 am, Usmanpura under bridge was closed between 1.55-4.10 am, Shahibaug 3.30-6.05 am, Mithakhali 1.20-11.00 am. Nirnaynagar, Stadium, Kubernagar under bridges continued to remain functional without break. Dakshini and Akhbarnagar under bridges are still closed. AMC has deployed pumps to flush out the water.

Municipal Commissioner, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, City Engineer, Additional City Engineers etc were present in the control room at Tagore hall from 2.00 am onwards to supervise administration’s efforts against heavy rain and water logging. All officers and employees of engineering, health, estate, garden and fire departments were already put on alert and asked to be on duty.

AMC activated total 63 pups and 46 pumping station for speedy removal of water.

Estate department staff is handling several complains of collapse of old houses mainly in Khadia and other areas in wall city part of the city.

Garden department is removing 12 trees that felled down during night.

AMC alerted 3.80 lakh citizens who had registered for bulk SMS updates during monsoon.

Torrent power staff and city traffic police staff was called on AMC’s control room for single window coordinated operation.

A day before yesterday, five gates of Vasna barrage were opened to discharge 14000 cusec water. The level was scaled down to 128 ft. Today seven gates are opened with target to scale down the level at 127 ft.

In each zone four AMTS buses, estate department dumpers and staff has been deployed with Fire brigade rescue teams and boats. Municipal school buildings are made ready to house relocated people in worst situation. To avoid pollution in drinking water, the supply time has been changed to 10.00 am instead of 6.00 am.

Morning flights to Ahmedabad were diverted due to unfavorable atmospheric conditions. The road to airport, and airport complex campus itself were among the waterlogged stretches in city.

All BRTS and many AMTS buses were not operated.

Update:

By noontime, the city has started normalizing, thanks to what we call in Gujarati ‘Ughaad’ or sunlight.