Kelani River water level · Karawanella Bridge flood level and live gauge reading
As of Fri, 30 Oct, 12:49 am (Sri Lanka time), the Kelani Ganga at Karawanella Bridge was 7.4 ft, below the 9.8 ft alert level, and rising slowly.
Readings from the Irrigation Department's HMIS sensor network, shown in feet. Levels come every 15 minutes. HMIS – Irrigation Department (hmis.gov.lk), ACCIMT.Karawanella is upstream of Glencourse and Hanwella on the Kelani Ganga: a rise here is an early sign for them.
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Arrows show the change over the last 3 hours.
In the next hour it should stay about the same.
The Department of Irrigation has issued Amber flood warnings for low-lying areas in the Kelani River and Attanagalu Oya basins…
Measured at 3 rain gauges within 5 km (nearest: Yatiyanthota, NBRO, 3.1 km): about 0 mm in the last hour, 1 mm in 24 h
HMIS – Irrigation Department (hmis.gov.lk).This gauge’s forecasts: the next hour is typically off by about 0.1 ft (last 30 days, 57 checks).
Reading at 12:49 am · 18 min ago
7.4 ft
2.5 ft below the alert level
Next hour
Rising slowly
Up 0.09 ft in 3 hours
Next 24 hours
No estimate yet
Steady: about 7.4 ft in an hour.
Steady: about 7.4 ft in an hour.
Published as 2.25 m (alert 3.0 m, minor flood 4.0 m, major flood 6.0 m)
| In | Level | 80% range | At |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1h | 7.4 ft | n/a | 1:49 am |