{"id":18611,"date":"2011-01-26T20:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=18611"},"modified":"2011-01-26T20:03:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:03:30","slug":"water-receded-as-spillway-of-the-dammed-hunza-river-is-blasted-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2011\/01\/26\/water-receded-as-spillway-of-the-dammed-hunza-river-is-blasted-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Water recedes as spillway of the dammed Hunza River is blasted open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u04b2\u0438\u0441\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0442\u0438 PT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gulmit, January 26: <\/strong>The water level in Gojal Valley has started decreasing at the rate of around 7 inches per hour, after a temporary blockade of the dammed Hunza River spillway was blasted open by Frontier Works Organization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">&#8220;The frozen surface of the river is cracking and sheaths of ice are breaking away&#8221;, a youth from Gulmit told Pamir Times on phone. He said that the water has gone down by around 3.5 feet since opening of the spillway earlier today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">&#8220;We have fixed a scale near the lake and are measuring the height reduction&#8221;, he further said. Earlier today a large number of anxious people had gathered near bank of the river to see the receding water level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Lower parts of the Gojal Valley were dammed due to blockade of the river as a result of the Attabad Landslide disaster that killed 19 people and destroyed the villages of Attabad Bala and Payeen, while also displacing the people of Sarat and Salmanabad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">According to sources water discharge from the lake has risen to around 22,000 Cusecs after opening of the spillway.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PT Report Gulmit, January 26: The water level in Gojal Valley has started decreasing at the rate of around 7 inches per hour, after a temporary blockade of the dammed Hunza River spillway was blasted open by Frontier Works Organization. &#8220;The frozen surface of the river is cracking and sheaths of ice are breaking away&#8221;, &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,536,15,738,191,47,49],"class_list":["post-18611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-gojal","tag-gojal-lake","tag-gulmit","tag-hunza-river","tag-hunza-valley","tag-hunza-nagar","tag-shishkat"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}