{"id":131331,"date":"2020-07-12T03:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=131331"},"modified":"2020-07-12T03:17:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:47:58","slug":"siangriver-hits-danger-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/12\/siangriver-hits-danger-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Siang river hits danger level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Siang-river-hits-danger-level.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-131343 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Siang-river-hits-danger-level.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Siang-river-hits-danger-level.jpg 472w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Siang-river-hits-danger-level-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a>Correspondent <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>PASIGHAT, Jul 11:<\/strong> Torrential rains have caused the water of the Siang river to rise to a dangerous level in East Siang district.<br \/>\nThe river is flowing above the danger mark since Friday night, and floodwater has already entered the low-lying areas of Pasighat.<br \/>\nOn Friday, the water level of the river was 153.97 metres, which was just above the danger level of 153.96 metres.<br \/>\nThe water level of the river was recorded at 154.24 metres at 2 pm on Saturday afternoon, and it gradually increased to 154.27 metres by 6 pm &#8211; the highest ever this year, water resources department (WRD) officials said.<br \/>\nAccording to the flood division of the WRD, &#8220;There has been heavy downpour in the hilly areas, due to which major tributaries of the Siang river are flooded.&#8221;<br \/>\nAll the rivers in the state are in spate following heavy rains, with most of them flowing either above the danger mark or showing a rising trend.<br \/>\nThe East Siang district administration and the WRD have advised the people residing on riverbanks and in low-lying areas to be alert to any emergency situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correspondent PASIGHAT, Jul 11: Torrential rains have caused the water of the Siang river to rise to a dangerous level in East Siang district. The river is flowing above the danger mark since Friday night, and floodwater has already entered the low-lying areas of Pasighat. On Friday, the water level of the river was 153.97 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}