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.
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Rescue operation continue at damaged Tapovan hydel project tunnel, following Sunday s glacier burst at Joshimath causing a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river, in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand
Three bodies were recovered on Sunday from the Tapovan tunnel following a seven-day operation to rescue around 30 people trapped in it after a flashflood-hit Joshimath area of Chamoli district, senior officials said.
These are the first bodies to have been recovered from the tunnel where people were at work when the calamity occurred last Sunday.The recoveries take the toll in the disaster to 41.  A massive search and rescue operation has been underway in the tunnel at Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site.
UPDATED: February 14, 2021 08:06 IST
Rescue operations continue at Tapovan tunnel where 30 people are trapped after flash floods in Uttarakhand. (PTI)
Rescuers on Saturday began boring a wider and deeper hole into the tunnel at the flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project in an attempt to reach the over 30 people trapped inside for nearly a week.
“The Silt Flushing Tunnel (SFT) was punctured on Friday night itself by drilling a 75mm-diameter hole into it but now it is being widened to 300 mm so that a camera and a water flushing pipe could be inserted into the tunnel where the trapped are possibly located,” news agency PTI quoted General Manager of the NTPC project R P Ahirwal as saying.
Rescue teams are yet to free 30 people trapped in Uttarakhand’s Tapovan tunnel. The have been trapped there since February 7 when flash-floods wreaked havoc in the area