Bhubaneswar: With the continuous heavy rainfall across Odisha, medium range floods will occur in the River Mahanadi System.
As many as 481 villages in 12 districts have been affected due to incessant rain, said Additional Chief Secretary Revenue & Disaster Management and Special Relief Commissioner, Satyabrata Sahu here today.
He said a medium scale flood is apprehended in Mahanadi river system adding that the administration is ready to counter it.
SRC Shri Sahu said that the District Collectors are asked to submit the damage assessment report after the water subsides.
Meanwhile, the leave of all government officials in Puri district has been cancelled in view of a possible flood situation.
The SRC said the Administration is ready to counter the flood situation. The officials are instructed to ensure 24×7 patrolling of weak river embankments and to evacuate people from low lying areas to safer places where it is required.
As many as 8 NDRF teams, 13 ODRAF teams and 62 Fire and Emergency teams are deployed in vulnerable districts to help the district administration.
Under the impact of deep depression, many districts of the State recorded very heavy rainfall during the past three days.
This heavy downpour has increased the water level of a few rivers including the Bramhani, Baitarani and Mahanadi.
Engineer-in -Chief (EIC) Water Resources, Bhakta Ranjan Mohanty said though water is flowing above the danger level in Baitarani river at Akhuapada (19.51 metres).
However, no reports of any damages caused due to flooding so far. He said the Brahamani river was flowing at 22.2 metres at 12 PM at Jenapur against the danger level of 23 metre.
He informed that more than 9.20 lakh cusecs of water are now passing through Mahanadi at Munduli. The water level will remain almost the same till late night.
The flood water would take around 12 hours to reach Jagatsinghpur, Puri and Kendrapara. The district Collectors of these three districts have been asked to remain alert.
The Hirakud reservoir has now 610 feet of water and a decision has been taken not to release more water from the reservoir till the water level in the downstream receded.