A reduced but continuing release of flood from Narayanpur reservoir in Karnataka and Ujjani in Maharashtra has kept the inflows constantly around 40,000 cusecs into Jurala project on Tuesday.
Over 13.5 TMC ft of water reached Jurala, the gateway reservoir across Krishna river in Telangana, till Tuesday evening since August 31, when the release of water into the river course commenced. A constant flow of 2,100 cusecs water was being let into Bhima river course, a tributary of Krishna, from the spillway and after power generation, while about 6,500 cusecs was being let into river from the power house at Narayanpur. A few units of power houses at Jurala project site and at Lower Jurala are being run intermittently from the night of August 31 and about 20 million units of energy has been generated at the two hydel stations till Tuesday evening.
According to the flood monitoring officials at Jurala, the flood is expected to continue for another couple of days since the inflows into Almatti, the reservoir in the upper reaches of Krishna above Narayanpur, and into Ujjani were on the decline. Along with the water being let into river from Jurala, small flow from Tungabhadra has also helped in adding to the storage in Srisailam. The storage of Srisailam that stood at 24 TMC ft on August 31 morning reached 31 TMC ft on September 5 evening.
