Dozens of villages at risk of flooding

GHAZI: Dozens of villages in three districts risked being washed away in case of a sudden breach in Hunza lake formed by a landslide at Atta Abad in Hunza Nagar, information gathered by this scribe revealed. A huge lake had been created after a landslide fell in River Hunza last January, where water is increasing with each passing day.

Presently, the lake is 21 kilometres long and 330 feet deep, posing a potential threat to a number of villages and towns in the low-lying areas in Haripur and Swabi districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Attock in Punjab if the water level rose further and caused flooding.

“The Tarbela Dam has the capacity to store only two feet water of flood current in case the lake bursts its banks in June, July or August. Storing water more than two feet in the 97 kilometres long and 450 feet deep Tarbela Dam would be dangerous,” a source confided to The News.

A number of villages including Galla, Batakara, Ponthia and Gar in Swabi and Ghazi, Khalo, Issa, Jullo, Bhai, Jammu and Mian Dherai in Haripur and Mominpur to Khairabad in Attock district are at high risk. The residents in the low-lying villages near the Tarbela Dam have urged the government to take prompt steps for their protection prior to a breach in Hunza Lake.

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