{"id":4390,"date":"2012-03-01T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2012-03-01T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T09:06:00","slug":"falling-lake-levels-at-the-attabad-landslide-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/01\/falling-lake-levels-at-the-attabad-landslide-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling lake levels at the Attabad landslide dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/2012\/03\/01\/gojal-lake-drainage-continues-slowly\/\">Pamir Times is reporting the effects of the excavation operations to lower the deepen the spillway at Attabad<\/a>, which led to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/02\/27\/breaking-news-the-attabad-landslide-spillway-has-been-reopened\/\">removal of the coffer dam on Monday<\/a>.\u00a0 So far this operation appears to have proceeded well &#8211; and credit is definitely due to the FWO and other authorities for what they have achieved here.\u00a0 It is really good news to see this hazard being managed in a proactive manner.\u00a0 The article notes that the lake level has fallen by 20 feet (6 metres) from its maximum when the coffer dam was in place, which means that the lake level is now about 10 feet (3 metres) lower than before th coffer dam was built.\u00a0 The upshot is that some of the previously drowned structures are starting to re-emerge, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/02\/27\/breaking-news-the-attabad-landslide-spillway-has-been-reopened\/\">post contains<\/a> some very interesting images of the re-emergence of buildings:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4391\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4391\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/03\/01\/falling-lake-levels-at-the-attabad-landslide-dam\/12_03-attabad-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4391\" title=\"12_03 Attabad 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/03\/12_03-Attabad-1-e1330592347169.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/2012\/03\/01\/gojal-lake-drainage-continues-slowly\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Gulmit-1.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>The Pamir Times reports that lake levels at Attabad have slowly fallen by 6 m since the removal of the coffer dam on Monday<!-- 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":4391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[967,47,469,15,10],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-attabad","tag-attabad","tag-barrier-lake","tag-featured","tag-landslide-dam","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}