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4 months ago

Allahabad HC lifts ban on registry of farm on Yamuna, Hindon floodplains

The Allahabad high court on Thursday set aside a 2020 order issued by the Gautam Budh Nagar district disaster management authority, making it mandatory for landowners in the floodplain zones of the Hindon and Yamuna rivers to get a no objection certificate from the Noida and Greater Noida authorities before executing the registry to transfer the land title to another …

Land Noida Zone Noc Gautam Budh Nagar Restrictions Authority

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Centre pushes for mandatory floodplain zoning law as only 4 states comply

Hindustan Times

New Delhi, With only four states complying despite repeated reminders, the Centre is contemplating making it mandatory for states to enact floodplain zoning legislation if they want to access central flood management funds, officials have said. A senior official said the Ministry of Jal Shakti has been in continuous communication with state governments, urging them to notify the Flood Plain …

Management States Legislation Uttarakhand Flood State Official

5 months, 1 week ago

Yogi allays ‘demolition’ fears of residents

Hindustan Times

LUCKNOW Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday allayed fears of residents of Pant Nagar, Indraprastha Nagar, Rahim Nagar, Abrar Nagar and other areas who had been apprehensive over misleading reports about the demolition of their houses. Speaking to the affected families, the CM assured that if any building constructed on private land falls within the riverbed development zone and has …

Zone Private Yogi Nagar Floodplain Kukrail Kukrail River

7 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court upholds demolition of encroachments at Akbar Nagar in Lucknow

Op India

In a major order, the Supreme Court today upheld the Allahabad High Court’s Order to demolish illegal settlements in Akbar Nagar in Lucknow. “In view of the aforesaid, we are in agreement with the High Court that the colony has been constructed on a floodplain area,” the Supreme Court concluded, stating that the petitioners lack any legal title or document, …

Supreme Court Court Lucknow Area Floodplain Nullah

8 months ago

DDA ignores directions to remove official constructions on floodplain, builds more

The Hindu

Just over a hundred metres from the Wazirabad Bridge in north Delhi lies Sur Ghat, spread over an expanse of at least 2,000 square metres. The DDA, despite court orders, has not only failed to recover multiple such “official” encroachments, but has helmed further concretisation for official developmental works, The Hindu has found. But the DDA, after having renamed the …

Hindu Ghat Court Orders Built Concrete Dda Yamuna

9 months, 3 weeks ago

NGT seeks report from Uttar Pradesh government on floodplain zone demarcation of Ganga's tributaries in Varanasi

The Hindu

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to submit a report disclosing the steps taken for demarcation of floodplain zones of the Varuna and the Assi, the Ganga's tributaries in Varanasi district. A Bench of National Green Tribunal Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava noted a report by the Varanasi Municipal Corporation, according to which 15 nullahs were discharging …

Uttar Pradesh Varanasi State Report Bench Varuna Untreated Sewage

10 months ago

How freeing rivers can help California ease flood risks and revive ecosystems

LA Times

Throughout the Central Valley, California’s rivers have long been held within their banks by levees and berms, artificially disrupting the natural cycles of flooding and preventing streams from meandering across the landscape. “Floodplains are this really important feature of rivers,” said Julie Rentner, president of the nonprofit group River Partners, which has led the restoration effort along with the Tuolumne …

Climate Change Water Rivers California Help Katz River

1 year, 4 months ago

We need to build a relationship with the Yamuna

Live Mint

Over many fair summers, a group of gangly children would splash around in a water body. Being in a capital city can be a curse for its natural features—both the Aravalli mountain range and the Yamuna are not just hills and river but also real estate. Restoring the floodplain to a biodiversity reserve with marshland, grasslands, native tree cover and …

Delhi Water Need River Build Yamuna Floodplain

1 year, 5 months ago

Yamuna's water level breaches danger mark in Delhi again after fresh spell of rain

India TV News

Delhi floods: Yamuna river on Wednesday once again breached the danger water-level mark, less than 12 hours after it dropped below the threshold, after a fresh spell of rain in the national capital and the upper catchment areas of the river over the last two days. The water level in the Yamuna had dropped below the danger mark of 205.33 …

Delhi Water Rain Uttarakhand River Level Himachal Pradesh

1 year, 5 months ago

After Yamuna, Hindon water level worries floodplain residents in Ghaziabad

Hindustan Times

A rise in the water level in river Hindon is worrying residents and farmers who carry out agriculture along the riverbanks. But unlike Gautam Budh Nagar, which has warned of “possible flooding” of the HIndon, the officials of the Uttar Pradesh irrigation department have not yet issued any alert and said the discharge in the river is not alarming at …

Water Ghaziabad House Near Gautam Budh Nagar River Kumar

1 year, 6 months ago

32 illegal farmhouses razed in Yamuna River floodplain in Noida

Hindustan Times

The Noida authority demolished at least 32 farmhouses built illegally on the Yamuna River floodplains on Tuesday. Our campaign against illegal farmhouses will continue following the law,” said Prasun Diwvedi, a Noida authority officer on special duty. The drive was carried out in response to orders from Noida authority chief executive officer Ritu Maheshwari, who directed the land department to …

Farmers Noida Drive Authority Maheshwari Yamuna River Yamuna Floodplain

1 year, 7 months ago

National Green Tribunal Gives No Objection For Installation Of LightHouse Near Yamuna’s FloodPlain In Delhi

Live Law

The principal bench of National Green Tribunal has given no objection to DDA for installation of a lighthouse in the greenway, adjacent to the Yamuna flood plains, for additional surveillance and security. The bench of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, Justice Sudhir Agarwal, Dr A. Senthil Vel said, “we are of the view that on principle there can be no objection …

Order Flood Tribunal Dda Yamuna Plain Flood Plain Zone

1 year, 8 months ago

LG reviews Yamuna revival works, sets June 30 deadline for clean floodplain

Hindustan Times

Delhi lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Sunday set June 30 as deadline for cleaning up the 22-km stretch of the Yamuna floodplain between Wazirabad and Okhlaas he inspected the works to clean the supplementary drain at Wazirabad and Sur Ghat at the river. I don’t want to talk politics and everyone should work together to clean Yamuna.” Delhi water minister …

Cleaning Credit Work Saxena Drain Clean Delhi Government

1 year, 9 months ago

NT government ignored pleas to relocate Pigeon Hole from floodplain, mayor says

ABC

The mayor of a region that has been devastated by floodwaters says houses could have been saved if the Northern Territory government had listened to residents and built them away from a known flood zone. Key points: The tiny Northern Territory community of Pigeon Hole was submerged by floodwaters after heavy rainfall last week Letters show the mayor of the …

Community Flooding Higher Ground River Victoria Supplied

1 year, 10 months ago

NGT-formed committee decides to develop bio-diversity park in Yamuna floodplain

The Hindu

Decisions on the development of a bio-diversity park in the Yamuna floodplain and a public awareness campaign to restore the old glory of the river were taken at a high-level committee meeting here, officials said Saturday. The National Mission for Clean Ganga offered to develop a bio-diversity park in the Yamuna floodplain in case Delhi Development Authority allots a land …

Delhi Committee Meeting Dpcc Dda Yamuna Djb

2 years, 8 months ago

California leads effort to let rivers roam, lower flood risk

Associated Press

MODESTO, Calif. — Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave across the landscape. The Dos Rios Ranch Preserve is California’s largest single floodplain restoration project, part of the nation’s broadest effort …

Climate Change Risk Projects Rivers State River Valley

54 years, 11 months ago

The Long U.S. History of Relocating Communities Because of Flooding

Slate

This article originally appeared in Issues in Science & Technology. A new era for flood mitigation During the summer of 1993, severe flooding along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries—the Great Flood of 1993—marked a milestone for flood relocation projects. Local residents identified several goals for the new town: a “Main Street” feel, a new school, a designated …

History Community Climate Change Flooding Flood Missouri Ohio

3 years, 4 months ago

Structure at New India Garden may hit green hurdle: Experts

Hindustan Times

The Central Public Works Department recently relaunched a design competition for an “iconic structure” to be constructed at the proposed New India garden on the western bank of Yamuna, although this could run afoul of both a 2015 National Green Tribunal ruling and a 2016 notification by what is now the Ministry of Jal Shakti. All necessary permissions will be …

India Structure Public Zone Ngt River Garden

3 years, 11 months ago

NGT Orders The Constitution Of Joint Committee To Analyse The Damage To Riverine Ecology Due To Illegal Constructions On Floodplains Of Mahanadi River

Live Law

The National Green Tribunal in an order dated 15.12.2020 constituted a Joint Committee to consider the effects of the proposed construction of new campus of SCB Medical College on the river beds and floodplain zones of river Mahanadi, Cuttack. A bench headed by Chairperson, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel took note of the instances of irreversible damage to the "riverine ecology" …

Construction Medical College Applicant Ecology Committee Bench Ngt

3 years, 11 months ago

China's floodplain farmers build new lives in town

China Daily

The new houses built for residents living at the riverside plain of the Yellow River at Jiucheng town of Juancheng county, Heze city of Shandong province. "Every summer, my father would worry that our roof would leak and the flood would hit the village at night," said Zhang, Party chief of Caolou village, which sits next to the Yellow River, …

Community China Houses Zhang Wang Residents Liu

3 years, 11 months ago

China's floodplain farmers build new lives in town

China Daily

The new houses built for residents living at the riverside plain of the Yellow River at Jiucheng town of Juancheng county, Heze city of Shandong province. "Every summer, my father would worry that our roof would leak and the flood would hit the village at night," said Zhang, Party chief of Caolou village, which sits next to the Yellow River, …

Community China Houses Zhang Wang Residents Liu

4 years, 1 month ago

Presto Chango: How flood map revisions allow building in risky areas

Salon

This story was produced by FairWarning, a nonprofit news organization based in Southern California that focuses on public health, consumer, labor and environmental issues. Across the country, developers regularly use flood map changes to build in areas vulnerable to flooding after getting FEMA to approve measures such as elevating homes, building retention ponds and raising the land with fill. Developers …

Community Homes Insurance Development Change Land Flood

4 years, 3 months ago

The mystery of the Murray-Darling's vanishing flows

ABC

It might be the biggest whodunnit — or what-dunnit — in Australia. For the first time, they provide evidence that the Murray-Darling Basin Plan — the most expensive environmental program in Australia's history — is delivering much less water than was expected. "It's a huge discrepancy to be missing a fifth of the water that's meant to be in the …

Climate Change Water Missing Rivers Group Williams River

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Allahabad HC lifts ban on registry of farm on Yamuna, Hindon floodplains

Centre pushes for mandatory floodplain zoning law as only 4 states comply

Yogi allays ‘demolition’ fears of residents

Supreme Court upholds demolition of encroachments at Akbar Nagar in Lucknow

DDA ignores directions to remove official constructions on floodplain, builds more

NGT seeks report from Uttar Pradesh government on floodplain zone demarcation of Ganga's tributaries in Varanasi

How freeing rivers can help California ease flood risks and revive ecosystems

We need to build a relationship with the Yamuna

Yamuna's water level breaches danger mark in Delhi again after fresh spell of rain

After Yamuna, Hindon water level worries floodplain residents in Ghaziabad

32 illegal farmhouses razed in Yamuna River floodplain in Noida

National Green Tribunal Gives No Objection For Installation Of LightHouse Near Yamuna’s FloodPlain In Delhi

LG reviews Yamuna revival works, sets June 30 deadline for clean floodplain

NT government ignored pleas to relocate Pigeon Hole from floodplain, mayor says

NGT-formed committee decides to develop bio-diversity park in Yamuna floodplain

California leads effort to let rivers roam, lower flood risk

The Long U.S. History of Relocating Communities Because of Flooding

Structure at New India Garden may hit green hurdle: Experts

NGT Orders The Constitution Of Joint Committee To Analyse The Damage To Riverine Ecology Due To Illegal Constructions On Floodplains Of Mahanadi River

China's floodplain farmers build new lives in town

China's floodplain farmers build new lives in town

Presto Chango: How flood map revisions allow building in risky areas

The mystery of the Murray-Darling's vanishing flows