Huge clouds are once again on our heads
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It has rained 75 mm so far. Golden muddy water is flowing in all six rivers of Karachi - Lyari, Thaddo, Malir, Mol, Khadeji and Sukhan. All the three check dams - Thaddo, Memon Goth and Jam Kunda are now full of water. That is a good news for farmers of Karachi as underground water table has risen and their well will remian wet tilll next year.
Heavy rains are also falling in Hub and soon Hub dam will spill over. That is also good news for farmers of Sakran, Hub, Durreji and Band Murad.
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KARACHI - Aug 22: The latest satellite image of the Gizri Creek where the Malir river empties into the sea shows how land reclamation (shaded area) has narrowed the mouth of the river. Mud and soil has been dumped here causing the sea to recede. With no free outlet, rain water accumulates in the DHA area.
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is it still lashing Mos ?
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No it stopped yesterday.
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Another round of rains is expected tonite or early tomorrow morning.
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Please, we have had enough.
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So much rain....phone lines are dead....sucks.
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KARACHI: Rainwater causes Hub Dam to overflow
By Azizullah Sharif
KARACHI, Aug 23: Water from the Hub Dam reservoir, which attained its maximum conservation capacity of 339 feet on Wednesday night, has started overflowing towards the Arabian Sea through its 6,020-foot long spillway.
Terming the monsoon rains a “boon for both Karachi and Balochistan’s Lasbella district,” Wapda’s Resident Engineer Inamullah Khan told Dawn that the water available in the dam’s reservoir would be sufficient to cater to the needs of both Karachi and Lasbella for two years even if they continue to maintain their present supply level of 100 and 59 million gallons of water per day (mgd), respectively.
Asked if the flash floods caused in the wake of the dam’s spillage resulted in any damage to the lives and properties of those living along the huge spillway area, he replied in the negative. He said that all those villagers who had been living along the dam’s spillway had moved to safer places much earlier as Wapda, through an advisory sent to the administrations of both Karachi and Balochistan, had warned them shortly after the current monsoon season had begun.
To another query he said that the water level in the reservoir on Thursday night was 340.5 RL (reservoir level) and rainwater was still pouring in because it has a huge catchment area comprising Dadu district and Kirthar National Park in Sindh and Daruna, Duraji and Shah Noorani in Balochistan.
It was for the seventh time that the dam’s reservoir had spilled since it became operational in 1981. Water from the dam’s reservoir had earlier spilled in 1984, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1995 and lastly in 2003.
Tracing the history of the Hub Dam, Mr Khan said that construction of the dam had begun in 1963 but it was commissioned in June 1981. It is since then that both beneficiaries had been drawing water from the dam to meet their requirements.
“Four consecutive dry monsoon seasons had resulted in the drying up of the dam’s reservoir; as such water supply to both Karachi and Lasbella had come to a complete halt in July 1999,” he said. Water supply was, however, restored in August 2001 as the catchment area received considerable rainfall, he added.
Water supply to both beneficiaries was once again stopped in October 2002 and remained so until the first week of June 2003.
Elaborating, he said that water supply from the dam is made available to Karachi through the Hub pumping station managed by the KWSB after water flows into a 19-mile long canal.
Wapda had been maintaining a five mile section of the canal since it handed over the remaining portion of the canal to the KWSB in 2002.
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Barish mean chutti
:)
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^^ yo very romantic for those villagers who had been living along the dam’s spillway .
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KARACHI: Rains give much-needed facelift to Chaukandi
By Bhagwandas
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KARACHI, Aug 26: While the heavy rains that lashed Karachi in the past couple of weeks have brought miseries to its residents owing to the failure and mismanagement of the civic agencies, the showers have worked wonders for the stone carvings at the Chaukandi graveyard.
The beautiful stone carved designs on the graves in Chaukandi, located at the fringes of the city along the National Highway, used to present a dull look owing to poor upkeep and maintenance. However, when this reporter visited the protected heritage site recently, the tombs looked clean and more attractive than usual.
When an official of the federal archaeology department was asked whether the department, which is responsible for its upkeep and security, had finally woken up and started taking its work seriously, he said that the department had not done anything recently, but the beauty of the stones has come out due to the heavy rains that have cleaned the dust that had settled in the delicate designs and carvings.
He, however, said that a restoration project was in the pipeline and the department planned to implement it as soon as it was approved. He said that the department had earlier also implemented one such project under which similar graves in the Taung graveyard, situated in the Khirthar National Park, were restored with financial assistance from the Sindh wildlife department.
According to sources the Chaukandi tombs are generally attributed to Jokhio and Baloch tribes and were built between the 15th and 18th centuries. Chaukandi literally means the four corners. The tombs are built of yellow sandstone, which was quarried from Jung Shahi in neighbouring Thatta district.
The most impressive tombs are the pyramidal structures. They are generally two-and-a-half feet wide, five to eight feet long and four to 14ft high.
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The geometric designs that cover the tombs are extraordinary. The intricate carving in the designs is unique and its delicacy gives the impression of wood carving.
Sources said that the same designs are found in the textiles, pottery, jewellery and wood carvings in Sindh and Balochistan.
The tombs of men are capped with stylised turbans and are occasionally carved with horses, arms and weapons. The tombs of women are decorated mostly with jewellery such as anklets, bracelets, necklaces, rings and ear pendants.
The tombs, found only in Sindh and Balochistan, can be found along the Makran coast up to the Indus River and up the river to Sehwan.
The most elaborately carved tombs are located at sites such as Hanidan, Lasbella and along the old trunk road at Malir, Dunblottee, and Mirpur Sakro. Tombs have also been found on the east side of the Indus River at Gujjo, Thariba, Sonda and Sehwan, the sources added.—Photo by writer