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Will reach the warning mark (39 feet) by Thursday morning.
Two teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have already been deployed in the flood-affected Shirol tehsil and Kolhapur city. Satara and Kolhapur districts have been receiving heavy rains, due to which the district administration in Kolhapur has been forced to take precautionary measures to deal with any flood situation in the district which was hit by floods in 2019 and 2021.
Due to heavy rains, the water level of Panchganga river at Rajaram Veer in Kolhapur reached seven feet below the receding mark and 11 feet below the danger threshold at 32 feet at 8 pm on Wednesday. The Red Alert is valid from 6th to 8th July for Satara District and 7th to 9th July for Kolhapur District.
“During this period, there will be extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places in the Ghat areas in the respective regions. For Pune, a red alert has been issued for July 7 and July 8,” India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said. According to district officials, if the rains continue in Kolhapur district, the water level of Panchganga, Dudhganga, Varna, Hiranyakeshi, Ghatprabha and Vedganga rivers will reach the warning level by the morning of July 7.
The administration has cautioned the citizens to follow the instructions given by the authorities. Kolhapur district guardian secretary Praveen Darade has directed officials to coordinate with the Karnataka government on the issue of releasing water from the Almatti dam to avoid any flood-like situation.
Officials said that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde spoke to Kolhapur District Collector Rahul Rekhawar in view of the IMD’s warning. Meanwhile, a total of 14 families of Gutke village in Mulshi tehsil of Pune district have been shifted to temporary residential structures as a precautionary measure in view of the possibility of landslides. Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) CEO Ayush Prasad visited the village and supervised the transfer of persons and cattle.
“A total of 14 families of Gutke village in Mulshi taluka have been shifted to a temporary residential structure in open ground as a precaution against landslides,” he said. Prasad said that it was brought to the notice of the district administration last year that there was one foot slippery in the ground just above the settlement. “Last year, geologists had reached this area. During investigation it was found that there was a landslide. Since it was risky, the residents were shifted to safety,” he said. A landslide occurred after heavy rain on the road leading to Pratapgarh Fort in western Maharashtra’s Satara district. Public Works Department executive engineer Sanjay Sonawane said earlier in the day that there was no report of any casualty.
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