Heavy rain lashes Mumbai, water-logging reported in many areas

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Isolated heavy rains have been lashing Mumbai and its suburbs since last night.

Many parts of the city have been inundated following heavy downpour, throwing normal life out of gear. A total of 79 dewatering pumps are in operational of which 38 are in Mumbai city area while 26 in eastern suburbs and 15 in western suburbs. BMC has a total of 313 dewatering pumps placed at different localities across the city which are put into operation whenever there is water logging at a particular spot.

Rain recorded in the last one hour: (12 noon-1pm) in Dadar-11mm, Vikhroli -24 mm, Kurla -14 mm, Dindoshi-18 mm, Goregaon and Andheri -13 mm, BKC -11 mm and Bandra-10 mm.

While the Colaba observatory recorded 56.8 mm of rains, Santacruz recorded 12.8 mm from 11pm last night till 7am today morning.
Suburban railway services were also delayed in the morning and trains were running up to 20 minutes behind schedule, stranding daily office commuters especially on the Harbour and Central line.

The heavy downpour has also led to water-logging in many areas including Gandhi Market and the end of Tilak Bridge in Dadar. The BEST buses have been diverted at Sion road no 24 and Vidyavihar. Meanwhile six tree fall complaints have been registered with the BMC disaster management since last night.

India meteorological Department, Mumbai forecasts heavy rains at isolated places in the next 24 hours.
There is a high tide warning of 4.81 metres which is given for 2.39 pm today in Mumbai. Citizens have been asked to keep away from the sea.

Meanwhile in the catchment areas the quantum of water in lakes that supply to Mumbai and its suburbs has reached 24.26% of its useful content from 17.63% on Saturday.

Tuesday's water content-3.51 lakh million litres-in the seven lakes is the best when compared to the last two years. On Saturday--June 24, the water stocks stood at 2.55 lakh million litres.

Mumbai receives water from Tulsi, Vihar, Tansa, Upper Vaitarna, Middle Vaitarna, Bhatsa and Modak Sagar lakes.
Last year, on the same day, the quantum of water in the lakes was one lakh million litres while in 2015, it was 3.38 lakh million litres. The water stocks need to be 14.47 lakh million litres by end of monsoon to suffice Mumbai's needs for a year.

Source: timesofindia