{"id":2559,"date":"2011-01-26T15:13:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2011-01-26T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:13:42","slug":"attabad-draining-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2011\/01\/26\/attabad-draining-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Attabad &#8211; draining operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week there has been a temporary dam in place blocking the <a href=\"http:\/\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/attabad-spillway-video.html\">spillway<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/iaeg-presentation-and-paper-on-attabad.html\">Attabad<\/a>\u00a0to allow the Frontier Works Organisation to undertake excavations on the spillway.\u00a0 It is unclear as to the intention of these operations &#8211; i.e. whether these are to deepen the spillway, to widen it, and\/or to reinforce it.\u00a0 However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/2011\/01\/26\/water-receded-as-spillway-of-the-dammed-hunza-river-is-blasted-open\/\">Pamir Times reports <\/a>that the temporary dam was removed today and that the water level is now reducing at a rate of about 7 inches (18 cm)\u00a0per hour.\u00a0 Flow through the spillway is reported to be 22,000 cubic feet per second &#8211; i.e. about 600 cubic metres per second.<\/p>\n<p>Can anyone provide any more information?<\/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>Over the last week there has been a temporary dam in place blocking the spillway at Attabad\u00a0to allow the Frontier Works Organisation to undertake excavations on the spillway.\u00a0 It is unclear as to the intention of these operations &#8211; i.e. whether these are to deepen the spillway, to widen it, and\/or to reinforce it.\u00a0 However, the Pamir Times reports that the temporary dam was removed today and that the water &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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","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=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}