Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

g) In terms of the quantitative flows that peaked to 270, 000 cusecs at
Amandara Headworks on Swat River, these swelled to 365,000
cusecs with additional flows from Panjkora River which had washed
away Munda Headworks, on 29 th July.
h) Downstream Munda, on 30 th July, another 150,000 cusecs from
Kabul River passed through Warsak dam, to touch another
historical high at 481,000 cusecs on that very day against
previously recorded 218,000 cusecs in 1965.
i) During its visit to Munda Headworks on 31 st March 2011, the
Commission noted the complete destruction of the Headworks
where all but one iron gates on either side of the river had been
pulled out and swept away like a straw, many km downstream.
j) Kabul River that passes through Nowshehra spilled over from both
its banks to submerge several settlements under 8-10 feet of water
besides inundating irrigated crops in that fertile belt, before the
roaring waters rushed to fall in the Indus at Khairabad.
k) The field visit on April 1, 2011 to Nowshehra confirmed that sweep
of the rain-storms induced floods beyond comprehension, too high
to stay within the banks of Kabul River.
l) Upstream Tarbela, on 29 th July, the extraordinary rains, hill torrents
and glacier melts on Indus River had generated 835,000 cusecs
intake in the reservoir, 61% higher than previous highest 520,000
cusecs in 1992.
m) By that time, Pakistan’s largest reservoir at Tarbela had already
surpassed its initial E-1 1500 ft threshold that permits limited daily
retentions; the Dam management had been put on high alert since
June 2010, amidst fears of accidental burst of Attabad lake in
Hunza.
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