LAHORE, July 24: The Indus and the Ravi were in low flood on Thursday while other rivers of the country flowed at their normal level.

Meteorological officials in the city, however, ruled out chances of flood in main rivers with the current spell of rains.

Sindh would receive downpour during the next three days and provincial authorities have duly been informed, they said.

The southern part of the Punjab may also receive heavy showers in the next 48 hours.

River pattern of low inflows would not change during the next 24 hours because no rain is expected in their catchment areas.

“At present, the rain concentration point is Sindh and southern Punjab and the monsoon current is being received from the Arabian sea.

“It becomes heavy and hit the northern parts of the country when Arabian Sea current is joined by second current from the Bay of Bengal. But no depression is currently building from the Bay of Bengal,” they said.

Both dams were also receiving healthy inflow and were being filled according to the schedule prepared by the Indus River System Authority (Irsa).

Tarbela dam on Thursday improved by one feet (from 1,527 feet on Wednesday to 1,528 feet) when River Indus supplied 364,000 cusecs of water and 279,500 cusecs were released.

The conservation level of the dam is 5.915 million acre feet against total capacity of 7.2maf.

Mangla dam was rather brought down by 0.3 feet by excessive release to keep it low for flood cushion. The lake level was kept at 1199.30 feet when 47,830 cusecs were released against an inflow of 38,800 cusecs.

The lake now holds 4.471maf water against total capacity of 4.64maf.

Kabul was flowing at 59,100 and Chenab at 89,370 cusecs, both well below flood level.

Meanwhile, as many as 164,010 cusecs of water went to downstream Kotri barrage on Thursday, according to telemetry report issued by the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda).

Indus covers about 174 miles along the meandering path from Kotri to the Arabian Sea.