{"id":118,"date":"2010-05-28T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/28\/attabad-overtopping-is-now-likely-to-be-imminent\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:34","slug":"attabad-overtopping-is-now-likely-to-be-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/05\/28\/attabad-overtopping-is-now-likely-to-be-imminent\/","title":{"rendered":"Attabad: Overtopping is now likely to be imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfortunate timing that the likely day of overtopping has fallen on a Friday, the holy day in Pakistan, meaning that flow of information is impeded.&nbsp; As a result I have not yet had an update for today on the lake level.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baunat.boku.ac.at\/891.html\">Jean Schneider of BOKU<\/a> visited the site yesterday by helicopter and measured the freeboard at 2.25 feet, which is about 70 cm.&nbsp; I am not sure what time this measurement was made.&nbsp; Based upon the rate of rise of water level, that should put the time of overtopping at some time today.&nbsp; However, this will depend upon the continued rise of the water at a similar rate, no further heave of the floor of the spillway and, perhaps most importantly, no further collapse of the walls of the spillway.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the continued mixed messages from the Pakistan administration has been illustrated by an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/daily_detail.asp?id=241756\">The News<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Zameer Abbas, Assistant Commissioner and in charge of relief camps in  Hunza Nagar, told this correspondent that the Karakoram Highway had been  closed for every kind of vehicular traffic as the lake water was  expected to reach spillway today (Friday) after which the overflow would  begin, paving the way for controlled release of water.&nbsp; Dismissing  the chances of water outburst, he said the landslide blocked some  one-and-a-half portion of the Hunza River and it was apparently out of  question that water would force out of this huge amount of mud and  debris.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I will post again when more information becomes available.&nbsp; Please can you email me at: <a href=\"mailto:d.n.petley@durham.ac.uk\">d.n.petley@durham.ac.uk<\/a>, and\/or add a comment to this post, if you have news on the situation.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfortunate timing that the likely day of overtopping has fallen on a Friday, the holy day in Pakistan, meaning that flow of information is impeded.&nbsp; As a result I have not yet had an update for today on the lake level.&nbsp; Jean Schneider of BOKU visited the site yesterday by helicopter and measured the freeboard at 2.25 feet, which is about 70 cm.&nbsp; I am not sure what &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[967,47,58,15,10],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attabad","tag-barrier-lake","tag-hunza","tag-landslide-dam","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}