Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

Statement of specific Levels at Each Mile of Bund (147: IRC
Form no.3), Statement of H.F.L. on Bund Mile Gauges and
Free Board Available Each year (148: IRC Form no. 4),
Bund Register for Consolidated Statement for Embodying
Data for River Bunds (149: IRC form no. 5), Register
Showing Incidence of Leaks( 150: IRC Form no. 6), Report
of Levelling on Bunds (151) and Other IRC Forms (152:
Indus Bulletin and IRC Form no 7).
x) Chapter XIV provides a synoptic overview of the ‘Flood
Management Practices on Mississippi River USA’ including
the lessons learnt by four senior Irrigation officials during
USAID sponsored visits to Lower Mississippi river during
10-29 May 1993 whereafter the Bund Manual was reviewed
and updated under various assumptions of flood projections
in the Indus river system. The incumbent Secretary
Irrigation, during the 2010 Flood then SE Rohri Canal Circle,
Sindh was part of that study Mission.
xi) Appendix I & II of the Bund Manual constitute historical
record of the floods since 1901; the former contains
anticipated / projected flood levels simulated on the basis of
previous highs, with due consideration for accumulated silts.
xii) Annex–I to the Appendix I contains further and specific
details of 148 ‘Vulnerable Points’ in the bunds constructed
on the right and left banks of Indus River’s Guddu, Sukkur
and Kotri Barrages and the possible causes/source of the
threats. These include Tori bund and MC Bunds at serial no
10, 12 and 13 flagged in view of repeated breaches of
various sections, upto 27 in case of Tori ‘Open to wave-
wash’; it had remained safe in 1976 when water level was
close to 1.2 million cusecs but it breached in 1995 at
500,000 cusecs and then was subjected to repairs; that
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