{"id":85,"date":"2010-06-22T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/22\/blasting-of-boulders-has-begun-at-attabad\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:23","slug":"blasting-of-boulders-has-begun-at-attabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/06\/22\/blasting-of-boulders-has-begun-at-attabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Blasting of boulders has begun at Attabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NDMA started the process of blasting the boulders in the channel at Attabad.&nbsp; This image, from Focus, shows the state of the channel and the reconstructed access track:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-Spillway-21st-June.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-Spillway-21st-June.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>One of the blasts yesterday was on the boulder at the entrance to the channel, visible on the left of the image above.&nbsp; This image shows the crews drilling the blast holes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-preparing-to-blast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-preparing-to-blast.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-after-blast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_06-after-blast.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Clearly this boulder is not the main issue in terms of the flow, but it may be that they are using this one, which is accessible, as a test.&nbsp; Access to the other side of the channel is difficult, so the suggestion is that water cannon will be used to erode the softer material.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see what they do today in terms of blasts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the lake level rose by between 8 and 10 inches (20-25 cm) yesterday, suggesting that inflow has increased again.<\/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>Yesterday NDMA started the process of blasting the boulders in the channel at Attabad.&nbsp; This image, from Focus, shows the state of the channel and the reconstructed access track: One of the blasts yesterday was on the boulder at the entrance to the channel, visible on the left of the image above.&nbsp; This image shows the crews drilling the blast holes: Clearly this boulder is not the main issue in &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-85","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\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}