Indo-Tibetan Border Police Director General, S.S. Deswal on Friday visited the Raini and Tapovan areas in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district where several people lost their lives in sudden flash floods.Deswal, who was accompanied by senior ITBP .
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Uttarakhand lake ‘stable’ for now, under constant monitoring amid efforts to drain
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The artificial lake at Murendra, which has been visited and is regularly monitored by DRDO scientists, has been assessed so that it poses no immediate danger. Plans are underway to create a narrow channel for water to drain downstream in a controlled manner, officials said.
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The plan is to have a controlled release of water as rescue work is still on at the Tapovan area and a sudden release could impact the teams downstream.
New Delhi: The artificial lake that has been formed in the upper reaches of the Himalayas after the flash floods in Uttarakhand seems to be stable with no immediate danger for the lower reaches, unless a catastrophic event like a cloud burst occurs, according to the assessment of scientists who are monitoring the situation.
Uttarakhand Disaster: Rescuers Shift Strategy, Rising Dhauliganga Triggers Another Scare as Toll Rises to 36
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Rescue agencies began drilling through the debris in the Tapovan tunnel to establish contact with the over 30 people trapped inside after a flash flood, an operation which stalled briefly Thursday when the Dhauliganga river began swelling again. The confirmed death toll in the Uttarakhand disaster rose to 36 with the recovery of two more bodies along the riverbank and 168 people remain missing since Sunday, after an avalanche or a glacier break triggered a surge of water in the Alaknanda river system.
In an apparent change in strategy, the rescuers are now also focusing on drilling through the hardened debris in the choked tunnel in Chamoli district, rather than just shifting mounds of silt and sludge heaped there by the sudden flood. The aim for now is to set up a life-saving system, possibly to pump oxygen into the blocked tunnel.