'The estuary of Tamor is shifting from 10/20 to 50/60 meters to the right and left every year. So far no one has been seen to reach the spring. There is a glacier there and it can be washed away, so you can't go there, you can only watch from the outside.'
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Cheten Sherpa Lama, the ward president of Paktanglung Rural Municipality-7, Olangchungola, went to Tibet in China when he was 10 years old. After reaching Mouwatar on the first day from the settlement, he was curious as to where the river flowing past the house came from.
When he went with his sisters, the higher he climbed, the more he saw the river near the house and kept asking his sisters from where it came from.
On the first day, he stayed at Mouwatar and on the second day went uphill. After reaching the mountain, the sisters showed him that the river started from here . The snow was frozen in the core . A little water was flowing under it . He was curious about how the hole would be made. After reaching Tibet and returning, he kept looking from the place where the river started to the house.
By the time he reached the age of 38, he has crossed Nepal-China back and forth through this road hundreds of times. Here, they cross the river to the right and left and keep going up and down . The Tamor river starts from the Nepalese land near Tiptala Bhanjyang, the border of Nepal and China and merges into Saptakoshi near Mulghat in Dhankuta.
It is not possible to cross the river without opening a bridge about one kilometer from the starting point. However, its source changes every year. The fountain that was shown to Cheten by her mother in Balakhai is now gone . It is five/seven hundred meters away from the spring that he saw when he knew it. Cheten says that avalanches and glaciers will change the river itself .
According to Nupu Sherpa of Olangchungola, who felt the same way, the 'glacier' changes every year. The changing 'glacier' also changes the river. "This year's spring will be completely stopped next year," he said, "Next year, water will flow from another place and it will be considered a spring." Locals have seen rocks, mud, and gravel falling during the landslide. "Even in Barkha, water can be seen flowing in the estuary," added Nupu, "in winter, it freezes from the mountains to the ground, the water flows from inside the frozen part and can only be seen downwards, we call it the estuary". From 10/20 to 50/60 meters, the spring is moving from right to left. It is difficult to go to the mouth of the river Tamor . "So far, no one has reached the spring," Nupu added, "There is a glacier there and it can be washed away, so you can't go, you can only look at it from afar." There is a spring on the right side of the road leading to Nepal-China border Tiptala Bhanjyang. "At the bottom of the estuary, the Tamor river is as smooth as a small river," Nupu added, "You can't cross the bridge from Mauwatar without a bridge." There are dozens of Zelunge bridges from Mauwatar in Taplejung to Majhitar in Dhankuta to cross the river. Half a dozen motorized bridges have been completed in this area.
Floods in the river sometimes cause human and physical damage. 73 MW of electricity has been generated from its water. A preliminary study has shown that 1700 megawatts of electricity can be produced from the Tamor river and the river that flows into it.
Tamor Reservoir 762 (studied), Tamor Mewa 125, Upper Tamor 285, Tamor Five 37, Super Tamor 166, Upper Tamor 'A' 60 and Tamor Khola Hydroelectric Project 43 MW (under construction Permitted) projects are .
The construction of the 73 MW Madhya Tamor hydropower project has been completed. Bhanendra Limbu, the president of Spark Hydro Power Company, which produces Tamor Mewa hydropower, says that while the study is still pending in the Tamor river, around 1700 electricity can be produced. Remit Hydro 77.5 and Simbuwa Remit 70.3 MW hydropower projects to be connected to Tamor Corridor are also under construction .
The local people are not very aware of the fact that Tamor is changing the estuary. Locals have not been able to recognize and keep the names of the Nepali Himalayas, the snow river and the mouth of the Tamor River, which started from the snow accumulated in the mountains. Cheten, who says that no matter where it starts, it is called Tamor's estuary, says that it is not even sadhe by naming the starting place in this way . Since they have always seen it, the change in the mouth of the river does not seem strange to them .
Anil Pokharel, the former executive head of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, says that the river's mouth may be changing as the rainfall and snowfall are decreasing. I had not heard about this before. There is no forest, there is no human activity. "This may have happened due to the amount of rain and snow that flows in Bahraimas," he said.
Climatic expert Sudeep Singh Thakuri says that this may have happened because the condition and area of Him River has decreased in Tamor area. "The condition and area of the snow river there has decreased by 15 percent," he said, "It is not possible to say the exact condition of the mouth of the big river, this may have happened due to the change in the conditions of the snow river and snowfall." There is a place where there are rocks, the snow is the water that came from the melting of the ice, so there may have been a difference. Arvind Shrestha, an environmentalist at the Madhya Tamor Hydropower Project, says that the temperature is increasing every year in Nepal and the source of the river is a glacier, so the source may have moved. The source of the water is the glacier. Because it is moving up, the mouth of the river may be moving," he said.
