Siren installed to protect locals from flooding

Tanahu, July 5: The under construction 140-MW Tanahu hydropower project at Rishing rural municipality-1 in Tanahu district has installed a flood siren to protect people settled near the Seti River from the disaster.     

The project installed the siren under social responsibility scheme so that early information on fluctuations of water level could be spread to the people living in the downstream.     

Chief of Tanahu Hydropower project, Shyamji Bhandari, shared that even an awareness programme related to flood-induced disaster risk reduction and management was organised for the people downstream the under construction dam. The undertaking also comes under river safety management plan.     

He informed that with the monsoon season being active across the country, the sirens spread alarm to the concerned residents so that they would escape disaster like flooding.(RSS)