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| Tunnel over Attabad Lake |
Attabad Lake, Hunza Valley, otherwise
called Attabad Lake, is a lake in Ganish (Central Hunza Valley of northern
Pakistan) made in January 2010 by an embarrassing margin dam.
Since the lake was framed the
main method for intersection was by stacking vehicles onto wooden water crafts.
This changed when an a street passage was constructed and it opened for
activity in September 2015.
The lake was framed because of
a gigantic avalanche at Attabad town in Gilgit-Baltistan, 9 miles (14 km)
upstream (east) of Karimabad that happened on 4 January 2010. The avalanche
killed twenty individuals and hindered the stream of the Hunza River for five
months. The lake flooding has uprooted 6,000 individuals from upstream towns,
stranded (from land transportation highways) a further 25,000, and immersed
more than 12 miles (19 km) of the Karakoram Highway.
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| Reallignment of KKH at Attabad |
The lake achieved 13 miles
(21 km) long and more than 100 meters (330 ft) top to bottom by the principal
week of June 2010 when it started streaming over the avalanche dam, totally
submerging lower Shishkat and mostly flooding Gulmit. The subdivision of Gojal
has the best number of overwhelmed structures, more than 170 houses, and 120
shops. The occupants additionally had deficiencies of nourishment and different
things because of the blockage of the Karakoram Highway. By 4 June water
outpouring from the lake had expanded to 3,700 cu ft/s (100 m3/s).
AfterMathe of Landsliding:
Water levels kept on ascending
in 18 June 2010 brought on by a distinction in the surge and inflow of the new
lake. As awful climate proceeded with, the supply of sustenance, drug and
different products was halted as all types of transportation including
helicopter administration to Hunza couldn't resume. Casualties of the avalanche
and development of the lake organized a sit-in challenging the absence of
government activity and remuneration installments to them.
As a consequence of the damming
of Hunza River, five towns north of the boundary were overflowed. One town,
Ayeenabad, was totally submerged. Significant segments of another town,
Shishkat, was additionally submerged. Around 40% of the town of Gulmit, which
likewise serves as the central command of Gojal Valley, was additionally
submerged. Noteworthy bits of land in Hussain and Ghulkin towns of Gojal
likewise got submerged as an aftereffect of the surging lake.
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| Attabad Lake |
The whole populace of Hunza and
Gojal valley, up to 25000 people, were affected as an aftereffect of the lake,
because of troubles of street get to and achieving business markets and loss of
land, houses, and horticultural items.
Attabad Lake has been gone by
both present and previous Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gillani and Nawaz Sharif,
and by the Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Sharif declared Rs 100
million of help for the casualties from the Punjab government and Rs 0.5
million for the relatives of the individuals who kicked the bucket in the
landslide.
Zones downstream from the lake
stayed on alert in spite of a few authorities trusting that a noteworthy surge
situation was more outlandish as the waterway started streaming over the
avalanche dam amid the primary week of June 2010. Many individuals have been
cleared to 195 help camps. Two clinics downstream, the Kashrote Eye Vision
Hospital and the Aga Khan Health Service, emptied both their staff and
equipment. Some authorities had inaccurately anticipated that when the lake
started streaming over the avalanche dam, a 60 feet (18 m) wave would hit the ranges
instantly downstream.
Starting 14 June 2010, the water
level kept on rising. DawnNews reported that "242 houses, 135 shops, four
lodgings, two schools, four production lines, and a few hundred sections of
land of rural land" had been overflowed, and that villagers were getting
sustenance and school charge appropriations. They reported that 25 kilometers
(16 mi) of the Karakoram Highway and six scaffolds were destroyed.
Outskirts Works Organization
impacted the spillway of the lake first on 27 March 2012 and after that on 15
May 2012, bringing down the lake's water level by no less than 33 feet
Effact
on nearby Community:
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| Pull over Attabad Lake |
The Gojal Valley, which is most
noticeably bad influenced as a consequence of this lake, is home to three
little ethnic gatherings, to be specific the Wakhi (80%), Burushaski (18%), and
Domaki (2%). The whole populace of Domaki speakers, a little minority and
generally minimized group, was dislodged from their town of Shishkat.
The Wakhi and Burushaski
talking minority ethnic gatherings have likewise been influenced extremely as a
consequence of the catastrophe.
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