SUBMITTED TO:Mrs. TUHINA SINHA.

SUBMITTED BY:RAKESH (070212) NAGARJUN (070213).

DEPARTMENT OF URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

INTRODUCTION

Flood Definition : A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land a deluge. Causes of Flood: Mass of water exceeding the total capacity of river or lake. When an area of land, usually low-lying is covered with water. Worst floods occurs when river overflows its banks. When soil & vegetation cannot absorb all the water. Coastal areas are occasionally flooded by high tides caused by severe winds on ocean surfaces, or by tsunami waves. Effects of Flood: Structures get damaged. Landslides can take place. People & livestock die due to drowning. It leads to epidemics & diseases.

River Krishna

The delta of the river is one of the most fertile regions in India and was the home to ancient Satavahana and Ikshvaku sun dynasty, kings.
Mahabaleswar

Sangli in Maharashtra & Vijayawada in A.P. are the largest cities on the River Krishna.

Hamasaladeevi

Ecologically, this is one of the disastrous rivers in the world, it causes heavy soil erosion during the monsoon season.

Length:- 1400 km

River Krishna

Krishna Basin extends over an area of 258,948 km which is nearly 8% of

total geographical area of the

country.

It flows fast and furious, often

reaching depths of over 23 m.

Tributaries Left:- Bhima, Dindi, Peddavagu,

Halia,
Munneru

Musi, Paleru,

ANDHRA PRADESH KARNATAKA MAHARASHTRA

113,271 km2 76,252 km2 69,425 km2

Right:- Koyna, Panchganga,

Dudhganga, Ghataprabha,

Dams across the River Krishna

Basava sagar dam

Almatti dam
Srisailam dam Nagarjuna sagar dam Prakasham barrage Jurala dam Dhom dam Narayanpur dam Amar dam Prakasham barrage in Vijayawada

High flood warning alert message

As per the CWC message

dt:01.10.09

the river

TUNGABHADRA AT MANTRALAYAM

IS

LIKELY

TO

CROSS THE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED HFL OF 315.80 meters during November 1992 by midnight tonight.

The discharge would be about 5,00,000 lakhs cusecs on

02.10.2009 between 6.00 am to 9.00 am.

The studies conducted on the catchment of Srisailam project

revealed that five days of continuous rain will give a

maximum flood of 26,00,000 c/s at Srisailam barrage.

Rainfall
Date Kowthala m 12.00 53.00 110.00 183.40 Mantralaya m 7.40 31.80 191.00 253.40 Kosig Nandavaram C.Belaga i l 22.4 31.8 82.4 226.2 9.4 28 138 253.4 9.2 61.4 156.6 72.8 Gudur

29/9/09 30/9/09 1/10/09 2/10/09

35.4 62.8 222.6 71.2

3/10/09

Nil

20.50

14.6

50.2

21.2

32.2

All units are in mm

INFLOW TO SRISAILAM DAM FROM VARIOUS SOURCES (in Cusecs)

DATE JURALA ROJA HUNDRI TOTAL

30/9/2009

1,50,410

55,601

250

2,06,261

1/10/2009

2,95,125

3,00,000

43,160

6,38,285

2/10/2009 10,86,516 9,50,000

3/10/2009 9,77,655 2,80,000

2,00,00
25,000

22,36,516
12,82,655

FLOOD AT SRISAILAM BARRAGE

DATE 30/9/2009 1/10/2009 2/10/2009 3/9102009 LEVEL(feet) 884.90 884.50 891.20 896.20 INFLOWS(c/s) 2,06,261 6,38,285 OUTFLOWS(c/s) 70,710 5,41,150 10,08,228 15,90,400

22,36,516
12,82,655

Flood in Tungabhadra

KURNOOL

Sunkesula Barrage on 2-10-2009

KURNOOL

FLOOD

Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have witnessed the heaviest flood in the river Krishna and its tributaries in more than 106 years.

With water inflow of 1.11 million Cusec at the Prakasham Barrage, which is surpassed previous record of 1.08 Million Cusec recorded in the year 1903.

The water level touched 21.4 feet at Prakasham Barrage and all the 72 sluice gates had been lifted to let out water into Bay of Bengal.

The devastation is on an unprecedented scale. Both states will take months to come back to a semblance of normal life.

The floods are never seen in over 1000 years and resulted in heavy damage to Kurnool, Mahabubnagar, Guntur, Krishna and Nalgonda Districts.

Entire Kurnool city is surrounded by 10 feet water for nearly 3 days. The death toll in AP is put at 37 Hundreds of people have been trapped on roof-tops without food and water for three days.

AP official data shows that the floods triggered by heavy rains have
inundated 400 villages, affecting a population of over 1.8 million and rendering 4,00,000 people homeless. Over 5,000 houses have been damaged while crops in over half a million acres have been lost.

KURNOOL

DAMAGE TO PROJECTS

EFFECTS OF FLOOD

KURNOOL OLD TOWN