Chamoli Glacier Break: SDRF workforce conducts survey of lake shaped close to Rishiganga river | Watch

Image Source : ANI State Disaster Response Force workforce reviewed state of affairs on the lake that has been shaped upstream of close to Raini village, close to Tapovan.
Days after the Chamoli glacier break in Uttarakhand following which a lake had shaped close to Raini village, posing one other hazard, the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) workforce on Saturday that reached the lake formation website, reviewed the state of affairs.

State Disaster Response Force workforce reviewed the state of affairs on the lake that has been shaped upstream of close to Raini village, close to Tapovan, earlier at this time.

Speaking after SDRF workforce reviewed the state of affairs, State DGP Ashok Kumar mentioned, “Water is continuously discharging from the lake, it’s not in danger zone.”

An 8-member workforce of the SDRF carried out a survey of a lake within the catchment space of the turbulent Rishiganga river which had precipitated a deluge in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district on February 7.

The workforce headed by SDRF Commandant Navneet Bhullar returned to Reni village in Chamoli district on Saturday night after gathering samples from the lake moreover filming movies of the world.

“We will send these samples and videos to the police headquarters in Dehradun for further action,” mentioned Bhullar.

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The SDRF workforce, which started its trek on Friday morning, took almost 13-14 hours to achieve the lake the place they arrange a short lived camp on Friday night.

Significantly, there’s a appreciable discharge from the lake additionally, Bhullar mentioned. However, he refused to remark additional on the discharge subject saying it’s as much as the scientists to take a word of it.

“We have also found a proper route to the lake which may help in case of any emergency in the future,” Bhullar mentioned.

After fears expressed by some villagers, the Uttarakhand authorities on Friday had sounded an alert after satellite tv for pc photos noticed the formation of a lake within the catchment space of the Rishiganga river.

“We have to remain alert as satellite pictures show the formation of a 400m lake at Rishiganga,” Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat had said.

Top authorities officers mentioned that folks have been requested to not go close to the Rishiganga river and take all precautions.

The authorities has additionally requested scientists of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology and the Geological Survey of India to depute groups to the Rishiganga valley to arrange an in depth report on the lake formation.

Reports pouring in from completely different areas of Chamoli district mentioned the move of Rishiganga abruptly elevated many instances since Thursday afternoon which compelled the authorities to droop the search operation contained in the disaster-hit tunnel of NTPC’s 520 MW Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel challenge for a few instances.

Rishiganga is a tributary of Dhauliganga river on which the Tapovan challenge is being constructed. Over 200 individuals went lacking after the Sunday morning deluge that had hit two hydel tasks in Chamoli district.

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