NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, AUG 29
Heavy rains lashed parts of Kutch district of Gujarat on Saturday, weather officials said.
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The state has received about 110 percent of its annual average rainfall so far this season, much of it in August, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The IMD also forecast “heavy to very heavy” rainfall at isolated places in the state till Tuesday morning.
આવતીકાલે બપોર સુધીમાં ભરૂચમાં નર્મદા નદીનું જળસ્તર 30 ફૂટ પર પહોંચે તેવી પ્રબળ સંભાવના – સરદાર સરોવર ડેમમાંથી 4 લાખ ક્યુસેક પાણી છોડાયું – NDRFની એક ટીમ ભરૂચમાં સ્ટેન્ડ બાય – ભરૂચ જિલ્લાના 35 ગામોને એલર્ટ કરાયા#Bharuch #rain #GujaratRain pic.twitter.com/AHbX8l9yaq
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Abdasa in Kutch district received 202 mm rainfall between 6 am and 4 pm on Saturday, with 118 mm rainfall in just two hours in the afternoon.
Gandevi in Navsari district in south Gujarat received 100 mm rainfall and Khambhalia in Devbhumi Dwarka received 94 mm rainfall in eight hours, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) said.
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The water level in Sardar Sarovar Dam in Narmada district rose to 131.15 metres – its full reservoir level (FRL) is 138.68 metres – after touching 131.28 metres earlier with the inflow of around 4 lakh cusec water due to heavy rains in catchment areas.
23 out of 30 floodgates of the dam were opened to release water in the Narmada river, officials said.
કચ્છમાં ભારે વરસાદથી નીચાણવાળા વિસ્તારો પાણીમાં ગરકાવ; કચ્છ જિલ્લામાં સીઝનનો 217% વરસાદ ખાબક્યો; ભારે વરસાદથી ગ્રામ્ય વિસ્તારના રસ્તાઓ નષ્ટ – જિલ્લાની મોટા ભાગની નદીઓમાં ધસમસતો પ્રવાહ – વીડિયોમાં ભુજ, નખત્રાણા અને ગ્રામ્ય વિસ્તારના દ્રશ્યો જુઓ#Kutch #rain #gujaratrain #Gujarat pic.twitter.com/THdVYRLEYn
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Villages in low-lying areas along the Narmada were put on high alert. Some people in Narmada and Bharuch districts were shifted to safer places as over four lakh cusec water was being released, and it could go up the dam was expected to receive between 5-8 lakh cusec water due to heavy rains upstream, officials said.
As per the latest data, till Saturday morning, Gujarat had received 912.56 mm rainfall or 109.81 percent of the annual average.
More than half of it, 561.66 mm rain, was received in August alone.
Kutch district has so far received 223.4 per cent of its annual average rainfall of 412 mm, while Dangs district has received 55.87 per cent of its annual rainfall of 2,377 mm, the SEOC said.
