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Rains above normal till now
June 16, 2015byEditorialEditorial
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Rains above normal till now

By Apurva Bhatt

Lakes have received rainfall and there will be no water cuts this month; Met department has forecast heavy rains in some parts of city in the next 24 hours

The heavy rains throughout Saturday and Sunday led to several areas of the city getting waterlogged and many trees falling. One person died after part of a slab in a garden in Powai collapsed on him on Tuesday afternoon.

The city has witnessed a total of 122.2 mm of rainfall till June 13, which is 4.78 per cent of the average monsoon total. This is much higher than last year, when the city had received only 18.4 mm of rain till June 13. The city is expected to see a high tide of 4.51 metres at 11.39 am today

.Several areas in the city experienced water-logging. These include Hindmata, an area notorious for water logging. It was supposed to be free of the scourge this year as the BMC has installed a new pump there. The area experienced water-logging on Sunday morning but the water was pumped out soon.Over the weekend, there were six complaints of plaster falling from buildings, in which no injury was reported but a man died in Powai because of a slab collapse . A total of 41 trees fell due to the heavy rains 14 in the island city, 7 in the eastern suburbs and 20 in western suburbs.

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