Following heavy rains upstream Pulichintala project in Prakasam district, the project received heavy inflows from local streams in Nalgonda district since Wednesday evening, resulting in increase of water storage to 13 tmcft.
Adlur, Vellatur, Chintriyala, Shobanadrigudem are cut off from the rest of the world. At Adlur, water entered at least a dozen houses.
Crops were also submerged in the back waters of the project. At least four villages of Guntur district have lost access. Following complaints from residents, the irrigation authorities lifted one crest gate and released 7,800 cusecs down stream Prakasam barrage on Friday afternoon.
Superintendent Engineer at Pulichintla, S. Chandrasekhar Rao, said the reservoir has 12.5 tmcft water now. However, he said that they are still receiving some inflows.
“We are closely monitoring the inflows, we will let more water downstream and keep water storage to 12 tmcft to avoid submergence of villages and crops,” he informed.
