The water supply from Hub Dam via Banaras has been suspended for repair of the broken portion of the pipeline providing water to the West and Central districts of Karachi.
Recent rainfall in the catchment area of the Hub River has increased inflow to the reservoir and increased the water graph to 328 ft, with the dam having the capacity to store maximum 339 feet of water
Hub Dam, a reservoir on the Hub River in the metropolis area has had an influx of visitors coming to the place to cool off and have a swim despite lockdown
The Hub Dam, located 56 km from Karachi with a total capacity of 339 feet, is extended to 24,300 acres with a gross storage capacity of 8,57,000 acre-feet water.
The Managing Director of the Water Board has said that recent rainfall in the catchment area of the Hub Dam has increased the water graph in the reservoir to 307 ft, which is further increasing with the inflows from the catchment area.
The irrigation department officials today said that the water level at the dam’s reservoir has reached to 298 feet, 20 feet above the level measured before the rain.