{"id":73147,"date":"2019-07-22T00:58:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T19:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=73147"},"modified":"2019-07-22T00:58:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T19:28:27","slug":"erosion-threatening-habitations-road-bridges-in-mebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/07\/22\/erosion-threatening-habitations-road-bridges-in-mebo\/","title":{"rendered":"Erosion threatening habitations, road, bridges in Mebo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Continuing rain damages roads in W\/Siang<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Prafulla Kaman ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, Jul 21:<\/strong> Erosion by the Siang river is posing a serious threat to human habitations and bridges along the Mebo-Dhola road in Mebo subdivision of East Siang district.<br \/>\nWhile the river has already swallowed several acres of fertile cropland in Motum on its left bank, it is gradually approaching Borguly and Serum villages.<br \/>\nErosion is also posing a threat to the Mebo-Dhola road and bridges in Serum, while erosion caused by the Tatsing river near Borguly is posing a threat to a Bailey bridge.<br \/>\nAs per information, the state PWD has sanctioned Rs 2 crore against two micro filling schemes, at the Tatsing and the Serum bridge points, but the work has not yet been executed.<br \/>\nErosion by the Siang river last year took a serious turn, rendering at least 30 families homeless in Serum and Mer-Gadum areas.<br \/>\nThe villagers have been demanding that the government initiate permanent measures<br \/>\nto check erosion as anti-erosion measures that have been taken up so far have failed to prevent erosion.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the continuing heavy downpour has disrupted surface communication in West Siang district, with the 5-metre span RCC culvert 2 kms from district HQ Aalo having been washed out in the most recent incident.<br \/>\n&#8220;The abutment capsized due to scouring of foundation. The RK Mission School, located on the Aalo-Likabali road, is cut off, and temporary restoration work is being carried out under the supervision of Highway AE Gemar Padu,&#8221; the DIPRO informed, adding that &#8220;permanent restoration may take two to three months.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Aalo-Pangin and -Pasighat road has also been affected by landslides at different locations, and patients and other commuters are stranded, sometimes for six hours, waiting for the block points to be cleared.<br \/>\n&#8220;The newly-constructed highway is also found sinking and deep cracks (have developed) on different portions near Renging, near Pasighat, and severe rainfall may worsen the situation anytime,&#8221; the DIPRO added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing rain damages roads in W\/Siang [ Prafulla Kaman ] PASIGHAT, Jul 21: Erosion by the Siang river is posing a serious threat to human habitations and bridges along the Mebo-Dhola road in Mebo subdivision of East Siang district. While the river has already swallowed several acres of fertile cropland in Motum on its left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73147","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=73147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}