3 June 2010
Attabad appears to have shifted to the next stage
Posted by Dave Petley
In brief, the discharge at Attabad appears to have dramatically increased in the last few hours, as the graph below shows:
I am trying to find out more information, but it appears to have shifted to a new phase of activity. Inflows and outflow may be approaching a balance. Downstream communities need to be very alert now.
More as soon as I get it.
Dave – thanks so much for these updates. Been following your blog since soon after the original landslide as my wife went down the KKH and stayed in Hunza in the summer of 2008 – so the valley and the people mean a lot to her and me (and from reading Peter Fleming's adventures.)Keep up your valuable work.David Burden
It's yesterday's but it is still the first video of the spillway at work I've seen so farhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia/2010/06/100602_hunza_errosion_video.shtml
Ivan: I can't see a video on the page, just an audio file and text – are you sure you got the URl right?
At least this will mark the end of further upstream flooding as the spill way flow approaches that of total inflow.
I think this is the proper link, although I didn't see the spillway in the video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia/2010/06/100601_hunza_lake.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia/2010/06/There is no space, but it gets cut off, this comes right after the /100601_hunza_lake.shtml
I do see the link on a Mac.. not sure why you don't.. sorry
It worries me that information updates to Dr. Dave are so slow and sporadic. I can only hope that those directly downstream are better plugged in as there could be a major release at any moment.George
Hello GeorgeDo you live in Plymouth?
Here's the links to each of the videos.This link is from this thread. It shows the river on both sides of the landslide — the flooded side and the drought side.This link is from the comments in the preceding post on why hasn't the spillway breached. It shows the spillway from the roadside, probably somewhat before Dave's annotated image of this morning. (yes, errosion has 2 r's)
This link will give you the urdu multimedia page. Hovering over the links will let you read the url's which are in english.
Thanks guys for the links – can see them all now. I'm a bit concerned about the lack of updates. I hope no news isn't because of bad news.
why there is no update after 24th June.
why there is no update after 22nd June