{"id":32138,"date":"2020-08-29T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=32138"},"modified":"2020-08-29T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T06:39:06","slug":"yamuna-continues-to-flow-near-warning-mark-water-level-likely-to-recede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=32138","title":{"rendered":"Yamuna continues to flow near warning mark; water level likely to recede"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11763744_Yamuna-continues-to-flow-near-warning-mark--water-level-likely-to-recede.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>: The Yamuna was flowing precariously close to the warning mark in Delhi on Saturday morning, but the water level is expected to recede, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The water level was recorded at 204.23 meters at the Old Railway Bridge at 10 am. It was 204.41 meters at 5 pm on Friday and 203.77 metres at 10 am on Thursday,&#8221; an official of the irrigation and flood control department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Water was being released into the Yamuna at the rate of 7.173 cusec at 8 am from the Hathnikund barrage in Haryana&#8217;s Yamunanagar district. The flow rate was 13,871 cusec cusec at 4 pm on Friday, the maximum in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The flow rate has remained between 10,000 cusec to 25,000 cusec over the last two days, which is not very high,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>One cusec is equivalent to 28.32 litre per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The water discharged from the barrage which provides drinking water to Delhi normally takes two-three days to reach the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The water level rose on Friday due to rains in Delhi and neighbouring areas, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The East Delhi district administration has deployed 24 boats, each with two divers, to monitor the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More boats and teams of divers are on standby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The river had swelled to 204.38 metres on Monday, which was just a metre below the danger mark of 205.33 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, the flow rate at the Hathnikund barrage is 352 cusec, but the discharge is increased after heavy rainfall in catchment areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the flow rate had peaked to 8.28 lakh cusec on August 18-19, and the water level of the Yamuna had hit the 206.60 metre-mark, breaching the danger mark of 205.33 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The Delhi government had to launch evacuation and relief operations after the overflowing river submerged many low-lying areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1978, the river had swelled to the all-time record water level of 207.49 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, it had risen to 207.32 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI New Delhi: The Yamuna was flowing precariously close to the warning mark in Delhi on Saturday morning, but the water level is expected to recede, officials said. &#8220;The water level was recorded at 204.23 meters at the Old Railway Bridge at 10 am. It was 204.41 meters at 5 pm on Friday and 203.77 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}