LAHORE, June 23: Four of the country’s rivers on Thursday received 499,342 cusecs of water with the Kabul river being in high flood at Nowshehra, Swat in low flood at Munda and the Indus in low flood at Kalabagh. Temperatures rising above 40 degrees Celsius in Northern Areas is causing massive melting of glacier and helping water to flow. Water experts expect a further rise in Kabul in the next 24 hours.

A healthy flow of 110,300 cusecs of Kabul is also causing low flooding in the Indus at Kalabagh and Chashma. The Indus itself is flowing at 243,300 cusecs at Tarbela.

The 147,200 cusecs released downstream from Tarbela proved too much for the river level at Kalabagh and Chashma where it caused low flooding.

On Thursday, the Tarbela dam had a level of 1,454.15 feet with live storage of 2.35 million acre feet. The optimum level of dam is 1,550 feet. On the corresponding day last year, the dam’s level was 1,419.06 with live storage of 1.1maf.

The Mangla dam also rose to a level of 1,167 feet, only 35 feet below the optimum level of 1,202 feet. It had a storage of 2.81maf against the full conservation capacity of 4.67maf. Inflow on Thursday was 67,492 cusecs and outflow 38,984 cusecs.

The level of the dam on the same day in 2004 was 1,133 feet with a storage of 1.49maf.

The Chenab also had a healthy flow of 78,250 cusecs at Marala against the last year’s 56,860 feet. The river would be in low flood if it gains another 20,000 cusecs, which is expected in the next few days.