Bangladesh
Teesta Water | Floods Teesta waters flowing over 60 cm danger level
Dhaka, October 20: The Teesta River has risen sharply at Dalia Point in Nilphamari due to heavy rains and steep slopes. At 9:00 am on Wednesday (October 20), water was flowing over 60 cm danger mark (53.20 cm). At that point, the danger level is 52.60 centimeters. Water flowed below the danger level (51.40 cm) till 6:00 pm on Tuesday.
Teesta Barrage gauge reader (water gauge) Nurul Islam said that as a result of the overnight rain and the slope of the hill at 9 am, the water level rose and flowed over 60 cm above the danger level. The water continues to rise. Red signals including miking have been issued in the area around Teesta. Forty-four sluice gates of the barrage have been opened to handle the flood waters.
According to the Dalia Water Development Board's warning center and the local meteorological office, 110 mm of rainfall has been recorded in the last 24 hours in the vicinity of the barrage. But heavy rains and mountain slopes upstream have inundated the lower reaches of the Dimla area.
Ilias Ali, deputy assistant engineer (water branch) of the Dalia Water Development Board, said all the gates (44) of the barrage were left open except for flooding in the lower reaches. Abdul Latif Khan, chairman of East Chhatnai Union of Dimla Upazila, said most of the people in the char area had shifted their houses, cattle and poultry to higher ground as the Teesta water flowed over 80 cm of the danger zone.
Meanwhile, in the Teesta floods, East Charnai, Khagakharbari, Tepakharibari, Khalisha Chapani, Jhunagach Chapani, Gayalmunda of Gayabari and Nilphamari, Golmunda, Dowabari, Shaulmari and Kaimari Union have entered about 10 chars and 20,000 village houses.
The locals are terrified. Meanwhile, hundreds of acres of aman paddy land have been damaged.
