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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 10 days of rain wipes out four years of drought in Marathwada. Now it's a deluge -Manoj More

10 days of rain wipes out four years of drought in Marathwada. Now it's a deluge -Manoj More

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published Published on Sep 27, 2016   modified Modified on Sep 27, 2016
-The Indian Express

Beed District Collector Naval Kishore Ram said the district had received around 45 per cent of its average rainfall in the past four years.

Beed:
Celebrations are on in Marathwada. It’s been raining for nearly 10 days now, and the region till recently in the news for a water train is marking the end of four years of drought with sweets, drums and photos next to overflowing dams. While delighted, officials now have a different problem on their hands: eight people have died in the past few days in Beed due to water-related incidents. Villages have got inundated, and in Beed, the NDRF had to be called in for help.

Officials said small and medium projects in all the eight districts of Marathwada are overflowing, while the big capacity dams too are either full or have crossed the 50 per cent mark. One of Beed’s biggest dams, Bindusara, is full after 10 years. More rain is predicted in the coming week.

Beed District Collector Naval Kishore Ram said the district had received around 45 per cent of its average rainfall in the past four years. Till Sunday, in the showers brought by a retreating monsoon, Beed had received 105 per cent rainfall. The district has crossed its annual average rainfall mark of 666 mm, with 700 mm rain.

On Sunday, many people gathered to watch the opening of the sluice gates of the overflowing Majalgaon dam (16 TMC capacity) in the district, done for the first time in four years.

Acknowledging the celebrations, Ram said, “We are now facing a problem of plenty. There is not a single well or lake or irrigation project that is not overflowing.” The district administration sought the NDRF help after water from swollen rivers entered villages, he added.

In neighbouring Osmanabad, people have been gathering along banks of overflowing rivers to celebrate. Its two key dams, Lower Terna (4 TMC capacity) and Sena Kolegaon (5 TMC), which also cater to Solapur district, are fast filling up. They had gone completely dry before the rains. At 50 per cent, Terna is fuller than it has been in 20 years.

The 17 medium-sized dams and 90 smaller projects in Osmanabad are all overflowing.

District Collector Prashant Narnaware said that compared to 49 per cent rain the past four years, Osmanabad has got 92 per cent so far. He is also battling the problems caused by this sudden surge, he added. Recent rains cut off six villages, and residents from two had to be shifted to safer places.

In Latur district, the worst-affected in the Marathwada drought, where water was brought on a train for at least four months, Manjara dam is three-quarters full. The dam is a lifeline for Latur city’s five lakh population.

The average annual rainfall in Latur is 802 mm. Till Sunday, it had received over 900 mm rainfall, officials said.

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The Indian Express, 26 September, 2016, http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/10-days-of-rain-wipes-out-four-years-of-drought-in-marathwada-now-its-a-deluge-3050184/


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