Category Dam Alert

Catastrophic flooding strikes 27 villages in Sokoto State, Nigeria

Farm produce worth over N100 million were destroyed by flood in 27 villages in Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto State, the Chairman of the Local Government, Alhaji Shehu Chacho, has said.   Chacho disclosed this to newsmen in Wurno…

Flood Alert As Warragamba Dam Spills Over In Sydney, Australia

Sydney’s giant Warragamba Dam is overflowing for the first time in two years after a period of heavy rainfall. The dam lies about 70km (43 miles) west of the city and is the largest urban water storage facility in the…

NEAR RECORD WATERS AT CHATFIELD’S DAM IN DENVER, COLORADO, USA

High water at Chatfield (credit: CBS) Recent heavy rain combined with the melting of above-average snow pack in the South Platte River Basin have pushed water levels at Chatfield Reservoir to near historic readings.   As of 8:31 a.m. on…

Flood Alert Issued in Tamil Nadu After Surplus Water Discharged from Amaravathi Dam, India

A flood alert has been sounded in a few areas of Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Karur district of Tamil Nadu as 30,000 cusecs of surplus water from the Amaravathi Dam in the Tiruppur district have been discharged into the Amaravathi River. …

Apocalyptic floods affect 2.3 million in Pakistan

Sher Muhammad, 85, looked on with a sense of bewilderment: “I have not seen such a flood, not since around the time of partition [1947].” As the flood emergency deepens in Pakistan, now affecting nearly 2.3 million people, humanitarian teams…