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Tidal waves spilled over the old embankment at Pentha coast yesterday forcing minor cracks in the embankment, Jugal Kishore Tripathy, Executive Engineer, Saline Embankment Division, said.
Emergency repair work was underway to plug the minor cracks. The embankment off Pentha will have geo-synthetic technology installation under World Bank-funded Integrated Coastal Zone Management Programme (ICZMP).
Torrential rains accompanied by strong winds lashed the areas cutting it off from the rest of the district yesterday, the sources said.
The five feet high waves spilled over the vulnerable shoreline and made inroads into Kanhupur village that adjoins Satabhaya inundating the 1200-year-old Panchuvarahi shrine.
However, the situation has improved today as water has receded through the natural discharge points. Steps were taken to send relief and assistance to affected people. The Block Development Officer, Rajnagar took stock of the situation?, Kendrapara Collector Pradipta Kishore Pattnaik said.
"The watery ingress posed no threat to Panchuvarahi shrine. All the people in these villages are safe", he added.
These seaside villages are subject to constant erosion by the sea. While the sea has eaten up nearly two-third of Kanhupur village, adjoining Satabhaya is equally hit by erosion. Of the cluster of seven hamlets that thrived during the seventies, sea erosion has already consumed five villages, the sources said.
