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July 2024
Ghed was flooded again, the fields were filled with water. Farmers are facing trouble due to the temporary repair work on the gabion wall being washed away.
Ghed Panthak has been flooded again due to rain last night in Junagadh district. Sand bags kept on the broken gabion wall in the Ojat river near Bamanasa were washed away and water entered the fields. Only a few days ago, the water spread in Ghed Panthak was gradually decreasing, but now the local people and farmers are in trouble due to the water entering again. Due to heavy rains, new water has entered the reservoirs including the Ojat-2 dam and many roads have been closed again, affecting life.
Many reservoirs in Junagadh district overflowed due to 15 inches of rain in the very first round of the monsoon season. In which the main dam of the district, Ozat-2, overflowed and its gates were opened and the Ozat river swelled due to heavy rains in areas including Vanthali. Near Bamanasa of Keshod, the gabion wall built at a cost of more than 1 crore on the river bank to prevent erosion of fields was washed away in two days. As a temporary solution, sand bags were filled on the washed away gabion wall to prevent the flood flow of Ozat river from eroding the fields when heavy rains again occurred. Some of those bags were pulled into the flood flow and the apprehension that the fields would not erode came true.
Many villages of Gher were once again in a water-bomb like situation. Due to heavy rains yesterday in areas including Vanthali, Junagadh, Mendarda, Visavadar, Manavadar, water had returned to the fields of many villages including Muliasha, Bamanasa, Madhada, Akha. Due to heavy rains, new water had come in the Sabli irrigation scheme. The Khar dam of Manavadar overflowed again. Two gates of Shapur Ozat and Ozat-2 dams were opened. Due to which an alert was issued in the villages of Nichhavas. Due to heavy rains, the roads from Padodar to Bamanasa, Bamanasa to Muliasha, Jaunpur and Madhada, Chandigarh and Panchala, Akhodar, Pallodar, Samega of Manavadar and Indra were closed again.
