Hyderabad:
With the monsoon season on the horizon, violations in river -road embankments have already begun. Almost half a dozen villages and hundreds of agricultural land acres were put underwater in the city of Seri de Hyderabad on Monday by the water that came out of a rape in the new Phuleli channel.
However, no victims were reported accordingly and no livestock animal perished. The channel, an official of the Authocation and Drainage Authority of Sindh (AIDS) informed, flowed at a high level of more than 15,000 Cusecs when the incident occurred, active and harmful cultures.
According to a report shared by the district administration after the visit of the attached commissioner Zainul Abedin Memon, the break was extended to between 40 and 50 feet when the plug exercise began. The opening location was RD-122 in Deh Lakhi Keti, Taluka Latifabad.
A 1122 Rescue official reported that the dike broke in Norai Sharif village. The water then flooded Kumon Kambrani, Kamdar Mallah, Laung Mallah and other villages as well. The crops standing in hundreds of land acres were flooded with villages that gave an image of a sea with submerged land to where human eyes can see.
An AIDS official, who requested anonymity, revealed that the exercise of closing the rape began after sunset because local people wanted time for the water to revert the flow in the channel.
According to him, the water level of the channel was eliminated by several thousand Cusecs after the breakdown that allowed reverse flows.
The official said that the channel suffered rehabilitation from 2015 to 2018, but the focus of the works were hydrological structures and adjacent embankments. According to him, the RD-122 was a katcha [mud reinforced] dam.
AIDS has not yet conducted an investigation into the cause of violation. The local people told the media that they pointed out the weakness in the embankment several times to the lower officials of the authority.
Meanwhile, the District Administration and the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC) mobilized staff to start drainage operations. Rescue teams 1122 also came with boats to rescue any abandoned people.
