{"id":85676,"date":"2019-04-04T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T11:34:50","slug":"sudden-release-of-water-from-dams-worsened-kerala-%ef%ac%82oods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sudden-release-of-water-from-dams-worsened-kerala-%ef%ac%82oods\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden release of water from dams worsened Kerala \ufb02oods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The amicus curiae appointed by the Kerala High\nCourt has filed a report stating that main cause behind 2018 Kerala floods was\nheavy rainfall but poor dam management aggravated the damage during floods. The\nKerala HC had appointed an amicus curiae based on a public interest litigation\nfiled by former bureaucrat E. Sreedharan.<\/li><li>The amicus curiae has informed the court that\nthe sudden release of water simultaneously from different reservoirs during the\nextreme rainfall aggravated flooding conditions. <\/li><li>The report has pointed out that the dams in Kerala\ndid not have an effective flood control zone and flood cushions. It also noted\nthat none of the 79 dams in the State were operated or used for the purpose of\nflood control and moderation. The National Water Policy, National Disaster\nManagement Authority guidelines on flood and RTIO (real-time integrated\noperation) put obligations on dam operators to use dams for the purpose of\nflood control and moderation.<\/li><li>The report also observed that the dams did not have\nEAP (Emergency Action Plan) despite the mandate of the National Disaster\nManagement Authority to have it by 2009. EAP is a formal document prepared by the\ndam operator which contains identifies potential emergency conditions at a dam\nand specifies actions to be followed to prevent or lessen the impact in the\ncase of a dam failure.<\/li><li>The report further stated that various alerts\n(blue\/orange\/red) were not issued in accordance with the EAP guidelines.\nFurther, no proper follow-up action and effective precautionary steps were\ntaken after red alert.<\/li><li>The amicus curiae has suggested a more detailed\ninquiry into the Kerala floods by an independent expert committee<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amicus curiae appointed by the Kerala High Court has filed a report stating that main cause behind 2018 Kerala floods was heavy rainfall but poor dam management aggravated the damage during floods. The Kerala HC had appointed an amicus curiae based on a public interest litigation filed by former bureaucrat E. Sreedharan. The amicus&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sudden-release-of-water-from-dams-worsened-kerala-%ef%ac%82oods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sudden release of water from dams worsened Kerala \ufb02oods<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[3078,3079],"class_list":["post-85676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","tag-dam-safety","tag-kerala-floods","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700791976,"cached_date":1701205245},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}