Taj Mahal Under Flood Watch As Yamuna Breaches Danger Mark in Agra Amid Monsoon Fury

The Yamuna River has surged past its danger mark, and in Agra, the river now presses hard against the Taj Mahal’s outer walls. What should have been a calm post-monsoon week has turned into a flood watch, with the city’s most famous landmark standing nose-to-nose with a swollen river.

Yamuna Floods; Crosses Danger Mark In Agra

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According to The Times of India, on September 7, the water level was logged at 152.45 metres. That’s already above the official “danger” line, though still a step away from being called a high flood. But numbers don’t capture the sight of the brown current sliding up the marble walls of the Taj Mahal. The rain that poured over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in recent days has come rushing down to settle this score in the plains.

For Agra’s historian Raj Kishore Raje, the moment is eerily familiar. He remembers 2023, when the Yamuna climbed the same way, brushing the Taj Mahal’s base but never breaking it. He said that the Taj Mahal was never just pretty stone but was built to take the river’s anger. Beneath the marble is a complex of foundations and wells that were meant, centuries ago, to deal with exactly this.

Not far away, the story feels much harsher. Nagla Naharganj, a riverside neighbourhood, is underwater. About forty families, close to a hundred people, have been pushed out. Government workers are moving supplies of dry rations and packets of food, but relief doesn’t erase the shock of leaving one’s home behind.

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Taj Mahal Faces The Swell; Authorities On Ground

The district administration has thrown its weight behind monitoring the crisis. A control room hums with constant updates. Teams track every rise in the river and every breach risk currently. Upstream, Vrindavan has already shut down a major ghat, not waiting for the water to decide the outcome.

Delhi is already reeling with its embankments broken, houses submerged, and evacuations in full swing. This season’s monsoon has cut across the region with blunt force, and the Yamuna River has become its chosen messenger, as stated by The Times of India.

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And yet, the Taj Mahal stands. For now, the marble dome lifts itself above nature’s fury, gleaming faintly in humid air. It hasn’t been touched, but the river creeping at its feet feels like a warning that even the most carefully built symbols of permanence are not immune to a changing climate. Agra waits uneasily, watching the rain clouds and the river rise, wondering how long the balance can hold.

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