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SITUATION REPORT/ALERT NOTE FOR PROBABLE FLOOD IN UTTAR PRADESH:

Completed by: Poorvanchal Gramin Vikas Sansthan

Team Leader: Krishna Kumar

Team Co-Leaders Raghvendra and Kamal

Date : 19 July 2016

Type of Emergency: Nil/ Just Flood Alert

Due to continuous rains in Hills and heavy water coming from Himalayan Mountains. The flood situation in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar has also been enhanced by overflowing rivers in Nepal.

As rains and thundershowers continued across the state on Monday, rain related accidents claimed 11lives in different parts of UP. All major rivers were on the rise and rail and road routes were affected in many areas. Incessant rains led to increase in water levels of major rivers in the state with Sharda and Ghaghra rivers crossing the danger mark in Lakhimpur-Kheri and Barabanki districts, respectively.Threat of floods looms large over Bulandshahr, Ballia, Muzaffaranagar and Ayodhya with water levels rising in Ganga, Yamuna and Ghaghra rivers.

State Met department predicted rainfall activity will remain low on Tuesday and Wednesday but will pick up again on Thursday. Heavy rain warning has been issued for Friday.

The fresh spell of rains has also improved state's rainfall score. Total rainfall in the state from June 1 till date has been 22% above normal. In comparison, till July 9, it was 12% above normal. According to MeT department, on Sunday and Monday, total rainfall in Jalesar was over 31mm followed by Mathura with 23mm, Mirzapur 18mm, Aligarh and Gorakhpur 15mm each, Azamgarh 13cm, Jaunpur, Agra and Lucknow 15mm each.

While two persons each were killed in Bijnor and Mathura in wall collapse incidents, five members of a family died when a house collapsed due to heavy rains in Muzaffarnagar and two persons were struck dead by lightning in Balrampur. A rail track on the important Agra-Mumbai route has caved in

PGVS Distt Coordinator Kamal, briefing the situation to Distt Admin, Bahraich

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and repairs are underway. More than a dozen tra ins were running behind schedule. Flood water has entered many places in Azamgarh.

Many rivers are in the spate after heavy rains in the state since Saturday. District administration of Hardoi held a meeting with local Army officials to alert them of an impending flood-like situation in the district.

As per reports from Flood Control unit of the irrigation and water resource department Sharda river was flowing 1.3 meter above the danger mark in LakhimpurKheri while Ghaghra crossed the danger mark in Barabanki. At least nine villages were submerged in flood waters in Barabanki district including Parsaul, Naipura, Manjha Raipur and Kanchanpur. District authorities feared a sharp increase in water level by Wednesday.

“Around 3 lakh cusec of water has been released from Sharda Barage in Lakhimpur which is expected to reach Barabanki from Wednesday,“ said sub divisional magistrate (SDM) Ram Nagar (Barabanki) Ashutosh Dubey. He said preparations were underway to evacuate residents of the villages on the banks of Ghaghra in the district.

The worst affected districts include Lakhimpur-Kheri, Bahraich, Sitapur and Deoria. In these places, flood waters have washed away several houses, damaged roads and inundated large farmlands

The eastern district's proneness to floods is attributed, among other things, to heavy rainfall, low and flat topography, high subsoil water level and the silting of beds which causes river levels to rise. The major flood-prone rivers are the Ghaghra and Saryu, Rapti and Sharda.

According to DHM, Nepal the flood water level trend in upstream side (Chisapani and Chepang) for the last 9 days are as given below:

Date River Place Alert level for Bahraich and Gonda district

Time Current Level of flood water

Status Trend

11.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani, Nepal

8 Mitre 5:25 PM 7.41 M Below alert level

Rising

11.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 5:25 PM 2.87 M Below alert level

Steady

14.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani, Nepal

8 Mitre 5:15 PM 7.83 M Below alert level

Rising

14.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 5:15 PM 2.69 M Below alert level

Falling

18.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani, Nepal

8 Mitre 11:00 AM 8.30 M Alert One in Bahraich and Gonda district

Steady

18.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 11:00 AM 2.94 M Below alert level

Steady/

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19.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani, Nepal

8 Mitre 6:30 AM 8.60 M Alert One in Bahraich and Gonda district

Falling

19.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 6:30 AM 3.76 M Below alert level

Falling

19.07.16 Ghaghra Chispani, Nepal

8 Mitre 9:00 PM 7.28 M Below Alert level

Falling

19.07.16 Saryu Chepang 4 Mitre 9:00 PM 3.62 M Below alert level

Falling

The water level position in downstream areas according to Central water commission’s report river “Ganga”, “Ghgra” and “Rapti” is overflowing above danger level in following areas at Haridwar in Uttarakhand.

Date River State Place Warning level (WL)

Danger Level (DL)

Highest flood level (HFL)

Current status

Trend

(standard) (standard) (standard)

18.07.16 Ganga Uttarakhand

Haridwar 293.0 Meter

294.0 Meter

296.3 Meter

293.15 Meter

Falling

18.07.16 Ghagra Uttar Pradesh

Ayodhya 106.7 107.56 106.28 Rising

18.07.16 Rapti Uttar Pradesh

Balarmpur 104.2 105.25 103.5 Rising

This is to inform you that Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has been forecasted for heavy to very heavy rain very likely at isolated places in East & West Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in next 48 hours. There is high chance to increase water level in Haridwar and Hrishikesh which may cause flood situation, IMD has flagged “Red Alert” for Uttarakhand.

The water has been discharged from Girjapuri and Gopiya Barrage on 19th July 401936 Csk, The water has been discharged on 20th July from Girjapuri 141268 Csk and discharged from Sharda Barrage 138000 Csk. Total 24 villages from the Mahsi Block of the district Bahraich has affected through flood and currently six schools are closed, The 4 boats has been placed by sub division administration in the badly flood and river erosion affected Gram Panchayats Baundi and Gopalganj from the Mahsi block. The Belha to Mehrauli embankment in Golaganj are damaged and road disconnected also the road disconnected of Kayampur embankment road, Pahiya Baundi and Pipari embankment road in district Bahraich.

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The district Magistrate is very serious for security of embankments and he has

visited various embankments and saw the current position and risk of the

embankments and given order to Tehsildar, Engineers and Lekpal for proper

monitoring and pre poisoning of flood fighting materials.

The Impact:

On Health:

The 24 village submerged in Mahsi Block and people staying in that villages, there is no information on the outbreak of epidemics from the affected areas of districts so far but minor cases of fever, water born diseases, cold and cough are seen. The health department distributed medicine related to fever, chlorine tablets and ORS among displaced community.

Education On Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation:

People are drinking water from p6 hand pumps which is bore in upper stream because all the drinking water supply resources are submersed. PGVS team is educating, demonstrating how to use aqua tab. We have distributed 500 Aqua tab strips in our project areas.

The Work of PGVS team: Orientation of revenue officers Bahraich, Gonda and

Gorakhpur: The PGVS team members oriented

approximately 158 revenue officers with SDM,

Tehsildar and Media on process of early warning

accessibility and dissemination process, Preparedness

before flood and Response mechanism in sub division

Mahsi, Nanpara of the district Bahraich and Tehsil Sadar in Gorakhpur. SDM Tarabganj district

Gonda planned the orientation meeting of above mentioned stake holders on 28th July 2016.

Strengthening of Subdivision Flood Early Warning Centre, Nanpara: The Nanpara administration requested to PGVS team members for sustainable establishment of electronic rivers display machine in sub division Nanpara district Bahraich and they also promised that they will ensure proper maintenance in future. The PGVS team discussed with PGVS board members and established those machines in sub division Nanpara after their final decision.

Meeting with Network Members: The Cross border network meeting was jointly organized by PGVS and Practical Action in Nanpara sub division district Bahraich under the leadership of SDM Nanpara Mr. Amitabh and network members decided the flow of flood information collection from upstream

Mr. Krishna, Kamal and Raghvendra are educating community about using ORS, Zinc and Chlorine Tablets

Ghaghra and Saryu River Water Electronic display machines has been established in Nanpara Tehsil, district Bahraich

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to downstream and dissemination at filed level along with various cross border challenges and also discussed solutions. Work by GTF members in project areas: The GTF members are collecting flood water level through local river gauges and electronic display machines. They are ensuring regular documentation of flood water level of their Village River and upstream side and also disseminating 1st warning through pre setup warning dissemination process among the village level, house hold level and sub division and district level.

GTF members placed one corner white flag for warning 1st dissemination in village early warning centre Mangle Purwa, Mahsi Block

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Paper News

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Flood alert

issued in Uttar

Pradesh

following

heavy rainfall By: ANI | Lucknow | Updated: July 19, 2016 9:09 am

(representational photo) A flood alert has been issued in several districts of Uttar Pradesh, in view of heavy rains for the

last two days.

All major rivers are in spate and have inundated large swathes of land.

As Sharda and Ghaghra rivers crossed danger mark in Lakhimpur Kheri and Barabanki, the

flood threat looms large over several other districts.

The flood posts established to help the affected people have started working in various districts.