INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
SAPTARI, AUGUST 14Water current has been measured the highest level in the Saptakoshi
River in Sunsari this year.
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Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of the District Police Office, Saptari,
Naresh Kumar Singh, informed that water level has immoderately gone up in the Koshi barrage with incessant rainfall in mountainous area.With
the water level alarmingly rising, all 56 sluice gates of the Koshi barrage have been kept open, it is informed.
Informing
that a red light has been issued to mark danger in the barrage, he said water current was measured 462,000 cu sec in the river at 4.00 am
this morning.However, water current is on the fall now
In 1989, the Saptakoshi River had witnessed measurement of 472,000 cu sec water current
This morning too, 462,000 cu sec was measured.The Koshi saw such a higher level of water current after 34 years
Local administration has urged the residents near the river basins to adopt safety measures with the rise in the water current in the
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