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Wet Mumbai waits for high tide to subside

Source: PTI
July 23, 2009 13:40 IST
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As rains lashed Mumbai, the metropolis faced one of the highest tides of the season that hit its shores on Thursday.

The city experience a high tide of 5.1 metres at approximately 1323 hours, which will last till about 1925 hours, officials said.

The meteorological department had allayed fears of large-scale flooding due to rains and said that it was unlikely that very heavy rains would be experienced during the high tide period.

Disaster Management Cell of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, however, has geared up to handle any situation like 26/7 deluge.

Moderate rains were experienced across the city with the Colaba station recording 20.4 mm of rainfall and 35.9 mm at the Santacruz station.

Civic body officials said that there was no major water logging reported in the city and pumps had been operated for at certain low-lying locations like Milan subway in suburban Andheri to drain out excessive rainwater.

Train services on the Central and Western lines were largely on schedule with no water logging on the tracks. Air traffic at the city's airport also remained unaffected.

Road traffic was slow, but there were no snarls on any of the arterial routes, police officials said.

Five persons were injured in separate incidents due to rains in the city over the last 24 hours, police said.

Three persons were injured when the roof of their house collapsed on Wednesday in the New Ashok nagar area of suburban Chembur.

In another incident, two persons suffered injuries after a portion of a wall of an eatery collapsed on them at Dharavi in central Mumbai. The two injured were admitted to Sion hospital, police said.

Four incidents of tree falling due to heavy rains were also reported across the city, but no one was injured, they said.

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