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Koshi breaching embankments
INARUWA, JUL 10 -
The increasing water flow in the Sapta Koshi River has started breaching in the river’s eastern embankments.
On Saturday, water flow in the river was recorded 130,780 cusecs, the maximum flow recorded this year.
With rainfall picking pace over the past few days, the swollen river is breaching the surface between spurs 11 and 12 at Pulthegauda in Sunsari, said Mohan Bhattarai, engineer of Water Induced Disaster Control Office, Biratnagar.
He, however, ruled out immediate threats. “But repair and maintenance has to be carried out on time to control further erosion of the spurs,” he said. Technicians had been clamouring for repair and maintenance in the eastern embankment between Prakashpur and Pulthegauda, but the government has not started repair work, citing lack of budget.
Posted on: 2010-07-11 09:14
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