• Under riverside takes measures to address the targery entries of the swelling in Guddu Barge
• The IRSA director says that the flood of around 650,000 CUSECs probably in Guddu if the current situation persists
Hyderabad: As Sindh anticipates a very high flood between September 1 and 3 in Guddu Barge, its first bombing in the Indo River, because the eastern rivers currently cause ravages in Punjab, the posterior province has asked the authorities to reduce Tarbela outputs to help him handle the Delugon.
As multiple rivers submerge Punjab, Sindh has communicated with the authority of the Indo River System (IRSA) to reduce Tarbela outputs and retain water in Chashma Barge, an application accepted by the authority.
The provincial irrigation authorities monitor the flows generated in the Chenab, Sutlej and Ravi rivers, since all these rivers converge in the Indo in Mithankot after passing the alluvion Panjnad built on the Jhelum River. In Panjnad, all Indo tributaries are on their way to the sea through Sindh.
“As of today, I anticipate a flow of between 650,000 and 700,000 cusecs in Guddu Barge once the flows begin to get here from the Eastern rivers,” said Jam Khan, Minister of Irrigation of Sindh, said Sunrise On the phone from Karachi. “At this time it is a riddle game because nobody knows how the rain pattern behaves, but we are making complete preparations and, consequently, managing staff in the dikes,” he added.
Zarif Kharif, Sindh’s irrigation secretary, said he left a similar situation in 2014 when Khanki Barge in Chenab reported 947,000 Cusecs Flow on September 7, 2014 and Sindh had received around 475,000 Cusecs.
“This time, the situation is a bit different because Guddu passed a great flood of 510,798 Cusecs on August 24. Until Wednesday, Guddu still showed a discharge upstream of 335,196 Cusecs, he said, and added that the flows would increase once the Punjab water reached the bulge.
To administer the increase, the secretary confirmed that they communicated with the operations of the director of IRSA, Khalid Idrees Rana to control the outputs in Tarbela. There was an output of 154,500 Cusecs in Tarbela at 6 am on Wednesday, which increased in particular to 256,200 Cusecs at 6 pm this, together with the Kabul River, will reach the barriers of Sindh in a few days.
The Tarbela dam had reached the maximum storage level of 1,550 feet on August 21. After IRSA began to discharge flows, the level of the dam stood at 1549.66 feet on Wednesday at 6 pm in this context, the irrigation secretary asked IRSA to retain the water in Chashma so that Sindh could handle their flows from the Eastern Fans.
“Yes, we have reduced Tarbela flows (at the request of Sindh), where 155,000 CUSECs were registered at 8 pm on Wednesday,” said IRSA’s director of Operations to IRSA to IRSA Sunrise. He also confirmed that “storage can be taken slightly higher than the maximum storage of 1,550 feet. We can take it to 1550.2 or 1550.3 feet for now,” he argued.
He said a positive signal was that there were no support flows in Chenab. “We are watching Nullahs like Palku, Basantpur and Bhimber today,” he said. He pointed out that, in view of the current situation, a flood of 650,000 Cusecs was more or less likely in Guddu and that it can also last five to six hours. “We are struggling to handle the flows in a way that Guddu discharge must remain below 600,000 CUSECs.”
Posted in Dawn, August 28, 2025
