As flooding still continues According to some of the local residents the river will not go as high as the 1969 s 8 15 m because of building along the river as well as aforementioned flooding is in the river which instigated paths for spillover from the riverbanks However they remember that every year when the river rises it changes the path and banks even with a few centimeters its ingestion away at sides So the banks are not as durable as 40 years back that is why the river broke over so rapidly and water is going so far off