Water level crosses flood alarm mark at Sangam in south Kashmir

Water level in the Jhelum river crossed the ‘alarm mark’ of18-ft at Sangam in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

“The water level recorded at 1400 hours was 18.21 ftagainst 18-ft flood alarm mark and as soon it crosses 21-ft mark, flood isdeclared,” said an official of Irrigation & Flood Control Department –IFC, Kashmir, according to news agency GNS.

   

The water at 2 p.m. at Ram Munshi Bagh in Srinagar was13.44ft against the alarm level of 16 ft and flood level of 19 feet, theofficials said.

He said that the water level was at 8.76ft, almost 6-ftbelow flood level at Asham in northern Kashmir’s Bandipora district.

Regarding some tributaries, the official said, the waterlevel in Vaishow Nallah at Khudwani was 7.77m, 3.14 m in Rambiara Nallah atWachi while the nallah Lidder at Batkoot was at 1.59 m.

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