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After touching 208.66 metres at 6 pm Thursday, over a metre more than the previous record of 207.49 metres reported in 1978, the water level of the Yamuna by early Friday morning.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/weather/india-weather-rains-floods-delhi-assam-himachal-8835592/
A week earlier, in New Delhi, jammed flood gates and a broken drainage regulator saw water from the Yamuna flow into the city, inundating several areas, including around the historic Red Fort and Rajghat - a memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi.
Before this, the maximum level of Yamuna had been reached in 1978, which was 207.49 metres.
He alleged that the sand mafia had stopped the Yamuna water released for Delhi in an area of about 7-8 km from Yamunanagar in Haryana, where the sand mafia is indiscriminately mining sand.
Heavy rain returned to Delhi once again on Saturday evening as it grapples with severe flooding after record showers, and a record-breaking rise in water levels in the Yamuna River that flows through the city.
However, Kurukshetra (101), Bahadurgarh (123), Panipat (130), Yamuna Nagar (135), (139), Faridabad (167), and Gurugram (199) reported “moderate” AQI levels.
“It was an old, abandoned channel of the Yamuna, which means the river may have flowed there at one point and it has changed course.
Major roads at ITO and other low-lying areas near Yamuna continued to remain flooded late on Friday night and commuters could be seen facing convenience to reach their destination.
More than a decade ago, environmentalists went to court to challenge the construction of the Commonwealth Games village on the Yamuna floodplain.
Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/07/delhi-drowns-as-yamuna-river-overflows/
Since February, personnel of the Territorial Army have been standing guard along bridges and other areas near the Yamuna to ensure waste is not thrown into the river.
Six more groups, of Teachers (Yamuna), professionals (Godavari), spiritual members, (Saraswati), farmers and artisans (Narmada), writers (Sindhu) and traders and businessmen (Kaveri) will be reaching the city in the coming days.
The area near Nigam Bodh Ghat in Delhi gets flooded as river Yamuna overflows and floods low-lying nearby areas.
The Central Water Commission has shared an update on the water level in the Yamuna.
The police had, a day earlier, closed the Iron Bridge Pusta Road in Gandhi Nagar for traffic until further notice in view of the dangerously high water levels in the Yamuna River.
The water-level in Yamuna began to recede from Saturday morning, after it ran at a record high of over 207-208 meters for close to 48 hours.
The water level of the Yamuna in Delhi breached the danger mark again on Sunday following a surge in the discharge from the Hathnikund barrage into the river after heavy rain in parts of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
The water level of the Yamuna, which breached the previous record of 207.49 metres last week and crossed 208 metres on July 12, was still flowing above the danger mark of 205.33 metres.
The Yamuna, an important tributary of the Ganga, is considered holy in Hinduism.
The Yamuna river is considered dead from the Wazirabad dam to Etawah.
Through the passage of time, spanning decades and centuries, the Yamuna returns to reclaim its floodplain, reminding us of its unyielding power.