Flash floods are likely to hit the visitors thronging Kuntala waterfall which received good water in the last days due to heavy rains in the upstream.
As many 35 streams and rivulets are flowing in the upstream of Kuntala waterfall and flows in Kuntala waterfall. Nearly 100 people drowned so far at Kuntala waterfall though officials put the number above 40.
The enthusiastic visitors are risking their lives violating the safety measure while bathing and clicking photographs and climbing the rocks despite the warnings by the watchmen deployed their as security to avoid untoward incidents.
Large numbers of people from Hyderabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Warangal thronging the Kuntala waterfall in the last one week.
Floodwaters were gushing from the top with force and there was every possibility of people near the gushing water slip down and drown. Visitors ventured into slippery areas to take photographs uncaring about the dangers involved.
Upstream not only in the Boath, Neredigoda and Itchoda but also in bordering Maharashtra received good rains. Identifying the flash floods with the suddenly increased water flow is very difficult to notice by the over enthusiastic people.
There is every possibility of taking a tragic incident like Beas river accident in which above 24 engineering students washed away due to the release of water to downstream when floodgates of Larji hydroelectric power project were opened without giving any prior caution in Himachal Pradesh in June 2014. The visitors cannot see the increase in water flow as floodwater falls from the down.
Kuntala waterfall is attracting many visitors with its scenic beauty of gushing water amidst hillocks with lush green.
In the five years, for the first time, Kuntala waterfall received good water one month early unlike in the past due to heavy rains in the up streams after successive droughts and the water flow is high at Kuntala by the first week of July itself.
A guard deployed at Kuntala waterfall Munuguru Poshetti said more than five members of a single family of Bellampalli have washed away in the flashfloods at Kuntala waterfalls in the past and also members of a family of Hyderabad also met the same fate while they were enjoying the gushing water.
He said enthusiastic visitors are playing with water without caring his warnings and there was a danger of flash floods due to heavy rains in the upstream for the last two days and added that 12 watchman were deployed for the safety and security of the visitors.
He said they were in need of announcement mike to alert the people enjoying at long distance at Kuntala waterfall.
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