No threat from new lake near Rishiganga: Geologists
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A team of scientists from DRDO and Dehradun-based Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology will be submitting their preliminary report regarding their findings on the lake.
(This story originally appeared in on Feb 14, 2021)DEHRADUN: Two days after it was reported that a 350-metre-long lake had formed near Rishiganga, where flash floods had occurred last Sunday, a two-member team of geologists from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University that trekked to the lake’s site said the lake has gradually started draining.
Naresh Rana, one of the geologists who had made a video pointing out the formation of the new lake, told TOI, “The good part is that with the lake gradually draining out, the chances of another flash flood are getting reduced.” A 17-member team comprising personnel of the disaster response force also set up camp at the site of the lake formation on Saturday.
DEHRADUN: Two days after it was reported that a 350-metre-long lake had formed near Rishiganga, where flash floods had occurred last Sunday, a two-member team of geologists from the Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University that trekked to the lake’s site said the lake has gradually started draining.
Naresh Rana, one of the geologists who had made a video pointing out the formation of the new lake, told TOI, “The good part is that with the lake gradually draining out, the chances of another flash flood are getting reduced.” A 17-member team comprising personnel of the disaster response force also set up camp at the site of the lake formation on Saturday.
8889 Members of ITBP unload relief goods at a temporary base camp set up by ITBP for distribution of relief material in the affected areas at Lata village in Chamoli district. Reuters
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Joshimath, February 12
Rescue teams continued their efforts for the sixth day today to evacuate around 35 persons, believed to be trapped inside the sludge-choked Tapovan tunnel, but without any major success.
The toll in the Dhauliganga and Rishiganga flashflood on Sunday rose to 38 with the recovery of two more bodies while 166 are still missing.
Around 114 m stretch of the tunnel has been cleared and drilling is on to reach the silt-flushing tunnel, where some workers might be trapped, officials at the Tapovan rescue site said. A senior official said the families of missing workers should not lose hope as round-the-clock efforts were being made to establish contact with those trapped inside the tunnel.
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Amid an alert, an eight-member team of the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) has conducted a survey of a lake in the catchment area of the turbulent Rishiganga river which had caused a deluge in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district on February .