Mumbai: Heading to work? Brace for trouble as heavy rain since early morning has left several locations such as Sion, Dadar, Matunga, Hindmata, Andheri and JVLR, Powai flooded. Railway services, too, are running late by 10-20 minutes.
Mumbai will also witness a high tide at around 2.30pm. A high tide of 4.81m coupled with heavy rain will increase the chances of inundation in several low-lying areas. On Sunday, tide levels soared to 4.97m coupled with heavy rain.
According to BMC data, 10 locations (6 in the eastern suburbs and four in the island city) witnessed waterlogging.
The Colaba weather station recorded 56.8mm rain between 10 pm on Monday night and 7am on Tuesday morning while the Santacruz weather station recorded 12.8 mm.
BMC officials said road traffic was affected as two BEST buses were diverted from road number 24 in Sion and from Vidyavihar west.
Mumbai received heavy rains over the long-weekend adding 91 thousand million litres of water in the lakes. Weather forecast has predicted heavy rains for Tuesday and Wednesday too.Suburban services on the western railway (WR) are running 10 minutes late, while the main and harbour line services on Central Railway (CR) are about 30 minutes late.
On CR, the tracks were submerged between Sion and Kurla stations, in addition to a technical glitch at Kurla station.
Although both the zonal railways did not released any official information, the Government Railway Police confirmed the delay.
Both the zonal railways have completed monsoon preparation works such as cleaning of nullahs, drains and culverts. Also, pumps have been installed at vulnerable locations.
Earlier, CR services were badly hit due to water logging on tracks at Thane and Kurla stations. CR had blamed Thane Municipal Corporation for the waterlogging at Kalwa.
Bureau Report
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