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FLOOD-SITUATION LEAD
Flood situation continues to improve across the country
DHAKA, Aug 10, 2020 (BSS) – The overall flood situation continues to improve in the country’s all river basins, including the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna (GBM) basins, due to dwindling the onrush of hilly water from the upstream.
The Brahmaputra-Jamuna rivers are in declining trend and it may remain steady, while the Jamuna River may continue falling in next 24 hours, according to a bulletin of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) issued this morning.
The water levels of the Ganges-Padma rivers are also falling trend, which may continue recede in the next 48 hours. Except the Kushiyara, the rivers of upper Meghna basin in the north-eastern region of the country are in falling trend, which may continue in the next 24 hours.
The water level of the rivers around the capital Dhaka decreased today and it will continue to fall in the next 48 hours, the bulletin said.
Flood situation may improve in Sirajganj, Tangail, Natore, Manikganj, Rajbari and Faridpur districts and the low-lying areas adjacent to the Dhaka city in the next 24 hours.
Normalcy has started returning to the flood victims in Rajshahi region as flood situation has improved in the Ganges basin, BSS Rajshahi correspondent reports.
“We are hopeful of further improvement of the flood situation in Rajshahi division as precipitation and the onrush of hilly water from the upstream were dwindled to a significant rate,” superintending engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) Mukhlesur Rahman told BSS.
Of 30 river points monitored in the Ganges basin today, the water levels declined at 21 points, while went up at eight points and remained stable at one point.
The rivers of the basin were flowing below the danger level at 28 points, while above the danger mark at four points this morning.
A declining trend of water level was recorded at all the four points of the Ganges River basin in the last 24 hours ending 9 am today, Mukhlesur said.
The Ganges River was flowing 170 cm, 182 cm, 107 cm and 99 cm below the danger levels at Pankha, Rajshahi, Hardinge Bridge and Talbaria points respectively, while the Padma River was flowing 14 cm above the danger mark at Gualundo point, he added.
Besides, the water level of the Korotoa River and the Jamuna River under the Brahmaputra Basin flowing through Bogura and Sirajganj districts were reported a falling trend this morning.
FFWC executive engineer Arifuzzaman Bhuiyan said water levels decreased at the 16 river points both in Ganges and Brahmaputra basins under Rajshahi division this morning.
He, however, said the rivers were flowing below the danger level at 14 points, while above danger mark at two points.
Bhuiyan said there is no possibility of any new flooding this year.
In Jamalpur, flood situation improved significantly as the Jamuna water dropped sharply, BSS Jamalpur correspondent reports.
Water level of the Jamuna River continues to fall and it was flowing 90 cm below the danger level at Bahadurabad ghat point at 12 this noon, the BWDB officials said.
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