Record rainfall in North Bengaluru causes breach of two lakes in Yelahanka zone

The banks of the Kogilu Lake successful Yelahanka and the Doddabommasandra Lake successful Vidyaranyapura — some of which travel nether the Yelahanka Lake portion of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) — were breached pursuing the dense rainfall, metropolis officials said.

The breach of the Kogilu Lake, dispersed implicit 40.4 acre, resulted successful the flooding of homes astatine the Kendriya Vihar Apartment, and the breach of the Doddabommasandra Lake dispersed implicit 39.10 acres caused flooding astatine Tata Nagar, Bhadrappa Layout, and Balaji Layout. The Doddabommasandra Lake breach besides resulted successful the waterlogging of the Outer Ring Road betwixt the BEL Circle and Hebbal Flyover, starring to monolithic postulation jams astir Outer Ring Road and National Highway 48 astatine Goraguntepalya.

“Commuters were stuck successful this conception for implicit 3 hours connected Tuesday evening earlier the postulation constabulary began letting a azygous lane of postulation to determination successful the BEL Circle-Hebbal conception aft the h2o had receded successful the area,” a constabulary root said.

Traffic connected the Outer Ring Road successful the southeast of Bengaluru successful the Mahadevapura Lake Zone was besides thrown wholly retired of cogwheel connected Tuesday evening aft lakes similar the Bellandur Lake overflowed resulting successful flooding of work roads on the Outer Ring Road betwixt the Marathahalli and Iblur junctions. An alert issued by the Bellandur postulation constabulary connected Tuesday said waterlogging successful the roadworthy resulted successful slow-moving postulation adjacent Ecospace Junction. Stretches on the Sarjapur Road were besides inundated.

As commuters reported being stuck successful slow-moving postulation on the conception for implicit 3 hours, the constabulary requested tech parks successful the Outer Ring Road portion to inquire employees to stay astatine enactment till 8 p.m. to let the postulation to easiness successful the section. “All roadworthy users are requested to debar the ORR betwixt Iblur and Marathahalli and usage alternate roads. This agelong is wholly congested owed to h2o logging of work roads,” the Bengaluru postulation constabulary said successful a societal media connection connected Tuesday evening.

Record rainfall successful Bengaluru

The rainfall connected Monday successful Bengaluru broke the grounds for the highest regular rainfall received by a upwind presumption successful the city, registering 186.2 of rainfall mm astatine the India Meteorological Department’s G K V K station. “The dense rainfall successful a abbreviated play connected Monday has resulted successful the breach of the lakes successful the region,” a metropolis authoritative said.

The highest recorded rainfall successful Bengaluru was connected October 1, 1997, erstwhile parts of the metropolis received 178.9 mm of rainfall.

The thunderstorm connected Monday evening was described arsenic a ‘cloud-burst-like’ concern by Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, arsenic it crippled galore parts of North Bengaluru owed to overflowing lakes and water-logging astatine residential areas and roads.

The Kendriya Vihar flat analyzable successful Yelahanka was inundated with 2 to 3 feet of h2o from the Kogilu Lake. Residents had to beryllium rescued by State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) unit successful lifeboats. Several vehicles of residents were damaged.

In a societal media post, the adjunct commissioner of constabulary (Traffic), Northeast division, said the work roadworthy from Kogilu junction towards IAF was closed to alteration rescue operations of those stranded astatine Kendriya Vihar Apartments.

The water bund of the Doddabommasandra Lake had breached for the archetypal clip successful the past 17-18 years, said Revenue Minister Byregowda whose constituency is successful the region. “Due to this, h2o has entered low-lying areas astir Kodigehalli. The tempest h2o drains excessively overflowed and entered layouts,” helium said.

The water outflow had reduced by Tuesday evening.

With the Kogilu Lake and the Doddabommasandra Lake located successful the vicinity of the main roadworthy starring to the Bengaluru International Airport, postulation to the airdrome was besides affected connected Tuesday due to the fact that of jams on the airdrome roadworthy and the adjacent Outer Ring Road.

IMD has issued a yellowish alert for Bengaluru till Thursday, October 24, during which dense rainfall and thunderstorms volition proceed successful parts of the city.