Narmada dam overflowing again

Vadodara

The Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam, situated in Kevadiya in Narmada district of Gujarat started over-flowing today due to heavy inflow of water from the catchment areas of river Narmada in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Ltd Mr. S S Rathore said.

This is second such incident in almost a week’s time. Earlier the dam overflowed on July 30 during heavy monsoon rain albeit with a thin margin of just one centimeter.

‘The dam with the current height of 121.92 meters started overflowing at around one pm. The water level has gone 34 cm above that mark and is expected to raise even further. By our estimates it would reach up to 123 meters by early morning tomorrow,’ the CMD said.

‘The current average inflow in to the dam is around 4 lakh cu sec while the discharge was around 70 thousand cu sec, he said.

Mr, Rathore said that the dam overflowed every monsoon for an average period of 50 to 60 days.

Government note says: Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam started overflowing today at 2.00 pm at 122.38 level. Present inflow in dam is 4,79,300 cu sec, 14,584 of which is being released through overflow, 13,277 through canal head power house(CHPH), and river head power house(RBPH).In total 70,445 cu sec water is being released. Level is likely to rise on 6th August and reach 123.10 meter level. From that mark it will start decreasing.

– DeshGujarat