Strong revival of monsoon in Marathwada likely to wash away rain deficit
The forecast of more rain for the region is expected to erase the monsoon deficit.
The widespread rain caused many key dams to overflow. Dharashiv's Ter and Govindpur both got 168mm rainfall, followed by Itkur and Kalamb (both 164mm) in Dharashiv, Phulwal (133mm) in Kandhar taluka of Nanded district, and Garaj (126mm) of Vaijapur taluka of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, revealed the official data.
The strong revival of the monsoon in Marathwada resulted in a sudden increase in the levels of different key dams.
The Manjara major irrigation project in Beed district, which caters to Latur city and other areas, was overflowing. Four radial gates of the dam opened on Saturday afternoon to facilitate discharge at 3,494 cusec by the evening. Besides, the Lower Terana dam in Dharashiv district, Siddheshwar dam in Hingoli district, Yeldari in Parbhani district, Vishnupuri in Nanded district, and Upper Penganga on the Marathwada-Vidarbha border also witnessed water release.
Among other key dams, the Jayakwadi dam in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar showed improved 93% live water storage with no fresh release of water through gates. Irrigation department authorities said storage in different dams would be regulated as per rain conditions, and people living on the banks of rivers and nullahs should remain alert.
A day after receiving an average of 35mm of rainfall in 24 hours ending Friday morning, Marathwada recorded an average of 16mm of rainfall during the next 24 hours, according to official data.
Three people died in two separate rain-related incidents in Nanded. An elderly couple from Kotbajar village in Kandhar taluka of Nanded district died due to a wall collapse triggered by rain around 4am on Saturday. The victims have been identified as Shaikh Hasina (68) and her 72-year-old husband, Shaikh Nasar Shaikh Amin, said Nanded district disaster management officer Kishor Kurhe-Patil. In another incident, a driver of a van engaged in school transportation was swept away when he tried to cross an overflowing nullah in Sindani village of Nanded's Kinwat taluka at 10 am on Saturday.
The 42-year-old driver was alone in the van at the time. A group of residents, with the help of the disaster management department, traced his body a certain distance away from the nullah bridge a few hours later.
A four-wheeler and its passengers trying to pass through a submerged underbridge on the Himayat Nagar-Hadgaon Road had a narrow escape as their vehicle was stuck in floodwater and was taken out by the disaster management department officials. Several villagers from some of the low-lying rural parts of Nanded district, including Waghala in Umri taluka and Mauje Bargadi in Himayat Nagar taluka, were stuck in floodwater until Saturday evening.
Evacuation and rescue efforts continued late into the evening. Parts of the district also witnessed the overflowing of bridges on local rivers and nullahs, disrupting vehicular traffic for a brief period, Patil said.
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