The recent flood in Machak River, Madhya Pradesh, India is a distinctive paradigm of flash floods that washed off rail tracks and killed a number of passengers besides incredible damage to Indian Railways and to the surrounding villages. This shows the vulnerability of bridges/culverts to flash floods in the country. Flash floods devastated the Machak River during the midnight of 4 August 2015 due to heavy rainfall in the catchment.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/flash-flood-disaster-threat-indian-rail-bridges-spatial-simulation-study-machak
[2] http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/112/05/1028.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/k-h-v-durga-rao
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/shravya
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/v-venkateshwar-rao-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/current-science
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/floods
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rail-transport
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rivers
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/madhya-pradesh
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bridges
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/infrastructure-development
