Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

keeping in view the UNOCAST’s satellite imagery of areas
earlier inundated in 2007 floods, to help focus on areas most
likely to be affected in the first round. Establishment of
District Coordination Rooms had been confirmed well in
time. It was lastly given out that on 28 July, and 1 St August,
on receipt of fresh advisories on heavy rains in upper
catchments:-
1) Special alerts were issued about exceptionally high
floods ranging from 500,000-600,000 cusecs on or
around 3-8 th August at Guddu to rise to 950,000-
1,050,000 cusecs by 6 th August to threaten Ghotki;
500,000-600,000 cusecs at Sukkur by 4 th August that
could rise to 900,000-1,000,000 cusecs by 7th August
to expose Sukkur, Larkana, Benazirabad (formerly
Nawabshah), Hyderabad, and Noshehroferoz before
reaching Kotri and downwards. At that point in time,
the Irrigation department had projected 850,000
cusecs maximum at Guddu and below from 3-6
August onwards. All concerned were alerted on 30 th
and 31 st July, for activating Contingency Plans A and
B, to commission the Relief Camps. Armed Forces
had reported slower response from irrigation officials
in patrolling the bunds. However, as floods breached
Tori Bund, 60 km downstream Guddu, concerns were
conveyed on 7 th August about attention to second line
of loop/ protective bunds at old Ghauspur, J-Spur, KT
Jatoi and Dadu–Moro Bridge, to advise pre-emptive
measures; these were followed by further advisories
including those on impending dangers to canals in
Ghotki. On 18 th and 22 nd August, additional
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