We are aware of how heavy rainfall led to the overflow of the Yamuna River and has now wreaked havoc in so many parts of Uttar Pradesh. Destructing all around with the intense force of water, the overflowing river already made its way toward the Taj Mahal. On Monday, the water outstretched to the walls of India’s pride, the Taj Mahal, according to a report by The Times of India.
Here’s Why Water Cannot Enter Into The Main Monument!
The design of the mausoleum plays a significant role in protecting it and preventing any overflowing water from going inside, ASI officials shared. In a conversation with TOI, Prince Vajpayee stated facts about how the design helped to save the main monument at such distressing times of heavy rainfall and overflowing floods. Prince Vajpayee is a conservation assistant at ASI at the Taj Mahal and he shared that the development procedure of the white marble monument stops the water flow from reaching inside.
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The overflowing Yamuna River has outreached the Taj Mahal’s back wall already. Previously, the river water level decreased to a huge extent and that is why a beautiful garden was built behind the mausoleum. It has been some decades since the garden has been constructed.
The Taj Mahal Flooded Some Decades Back
Yamuna River water has reached the back walls of the Taj Mahal for the first time in 45 years. It was back in 1978 when the water level rose as high as 508 feet. Soaring at such a height indicates a high flood level. Back then, the overflowing water reached 22 rooms in the basement. Some slits were even seen after this incident. The rise in the Yamuna River water level is marked on the northern wall’s Basai Ghat Burj.
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The ASI separated all the wooden doors and removed them. In place of the doors, they built walls at the entrance from Basai and Dusherra ghats after this flooding incident.
The design of the mausoleum is now protecting the main monument.
Many areas of Agra have been affected badly. Residents moved away from their houses to save themselves from these scary floods.
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