Water supply hampered to Mangaluru as water level increased in Netravati river: Mayor
Mangaluru, August 17: Mayor Bhaskar Moily said that water supply to the city was hampered as the water level in the Tumbe dam is increased due to flood situation in Netravati river.
After visiting the newly constructed Tumbe dam along with deputy mayor Muhammad K, standing committee presidents and officials on Friday, he told media persons that as the water level was increased to 9.1 mts in the dam, pumping was stopped on Thursday night. But late night, pumping was started. Mescom was supplying power to the Tumbe dam from Bantwala sub-station. The power line passed below near the dam and when the water level increased to 9.1 mts in the dam, the power line would touch the water. So, as a precautionary measure, the MESCOM would disconnect the power supply as soon as the water level increased to 8.5 mts height due to which water supply was hampered, he said.
On August 14 night, the water level in the dam was increased to 8.2 mts and the MESCOM had disconnected the power supply. On August 15 from 3.45 am to 7.10 am, the water level again rose to 8.8 mts and on August 16 at 6.35 pm, the water level increased to 8.9 mts. As the power connection was hampered during this time, water was not pumped. On Friday morning, the water level came down to 7.9 mts and water pumping was started. As and when the water level increased in the dam, the water supply to Mangaluru city, Ullala and Bantwala get disruption in water supply, he said.
Tumbe gets record 11.9 mts water level!
Presently, there was no problem due to increase in water level in the dam. In 1974, Tumbe old dam had recorded 11.9 mts water level which is the highest water level recorded in the history of the dam, he said.
City Corporation chief whip Shashidhar Hegde, standing committee presidents Praveen Chandra Alva, and Naveen D’Souza, corporator Deepak Poojary, Commissioner Muhammad Nazeer, officers Linge Gowda and Naresh Shenoy were present.
Poligio fibre bags to check collapse of dam retention wall!
The retention wall of the Tumbe dam pump house was collapsed in some places. Around six months ago, around 35 mts long retention wall was collapsed and now, another 20 mts was damaged. In order to stop this temporarily, poligio fibre bags (huge sand-filled bags) which were placed in the sea erosion places in Ullala, would be placed. The experts of the Hyderabad-based company which laid the bags at Ullala, visited the Tumbe dam on Thursday and reviewed the situation. Once they give the proposal, the work to lay the sand bags would start by December. The work has to take up when the water level decreased to 4 mts. In order to construct permanent retention wall, the city corporation would require Rs 15 crore and the corporation has submitted a proposal for Rs 10 crore to the government, said deputy mayor Muhammad K.
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Iran reimposes restrictions on Strait of Hormuz, accusing US of violating deal to reopen it
Cairo (AP): Iran swiftly reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, reimposing restrictions on the critical waterway on Saturday after the US said it would not end its blockade of Iran-linked shipping.
Iran's joint military command said on Saturday that “control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state ... under strict management and control of the armed forces.” It warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the US blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect.
The announcement came the morning after US President Donald Trump said that even after Iran announced the strait's reopening on Friday, the American blockade “will remain in full force” until Tehran reaches a deal with the US, including on its nuclear programme.
The conflict over the chokepoint threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy after oil prices began to fall again on Friday on hopes the US and Iran were drawing closer to an agreement. Roughly one-fifth of the world's oil passes through the strait, and further limits would squeeze already constrained supply, driving prices higher once again.
Control over the strait has proven to be one of Iran's main points of leverage and prompted the United States to deploy forces and initiate a blockade on Iranian ports as part of an effort to force Iran to accept a Pakistan-brokered ceasefire to end almost seven weeks of war that has raged between Israel, the US and Iran.
Iran said it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels after a 10-day truce was announced between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. But after Trump said the blockade would continue, top Iranian officials said his announcement violated last week's ceasefire agreement between Iran and the US and warned the strait would not stay open if the US blockade remained in effect.
A data firm, Kpler, said movement through the strait remained confined to corridors requiring Iran's approval.
US forces have sent 21 ships back to Iran since the blockade began on Monday, US Central Command said on X.
Truce in Lebanon could help US-Iran peace efforts
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The ceasefire in Lebanon could clear one major obstacle to an agreement. But it was unclear to what extent Hezbollah would abide by a deal it did not play a role in negotiating, and which will leave Israeli troops occupying a stretch of southern Lebanon.
Trump said in another post that Israel is “prohibited” by the US from further strikes on Lebanon and that “enough is enough” in the Israel-Hezbollah war.
The State Department said the prohibition applies only to offensive attacks and not to actions taken in self-defence.
Shortly before Trump's post, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel agreed to the ceasefire in Lebanon “at the request of my friend President Trump,” but that the campaign against Hezbollah is not complete.
He claimed Israel had destroyed about 90 per cent of Hezbollah's missile and rocket stockpiles and added that Israeli forces “have not finished yet” with the dismantling of the group.
In Beirut, displaced families began moving toward southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs despite warnings by officials not to return to their homes until it became clear whether the ceasefire would hold.
The Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon reported sporadic artillery shelling in some parts of southern Lebanon in the hours after the ceasefire took effect.
An end to Israel's war with Hezbollah was a key demand of Iranian negotiators, who previously accused Israel of breaking last week's ceasefire with strikes on Lebanon. Israel had said that the deal did not cover Lebanon.
The fighting has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran, more than 2,290 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Thirteen US service members have also been killed.
