How 22 inches of rain left Ahmedabad’s Bopal, Ghuma waterlogged for three days

The road to Iscon Greens led through slush and debris sprayed with white disinfectant powder.Located in the Bopal-Ghuma area in Ahmedabad’s southwest, the 16-year-old scheme has 182 bungalows that range from 250 to 500 square yards in area.After the July 23-24 rain that lashed for 24 hours, the residential society, which is home to several retired officials from ISRO, police, and other government departments, went under nearly three feet of water and stayed waterlogged for nearly three days. That was even after much of the floodwater had been drained into three lakes that can collectively hold over 200 million litres of water.The Greens’ primary entry gate remained flooded even on Sunday. So, the next day, one of its boundary walls to the south was brought down so that an old 125-metre-lon