Water continued to be discharged into the Godavari river from Kadem dam on the second day on Saturday thanks to steady inflows of of over 6,000 cusecs.
One gate was lifted to a height of 4 ft at 6 a.m. on the previous day to discharge some 5,200 cusecs of water to maintain the reservoir level at 698 ft against a full reservoir level of 700 ft.
The same quantum of water was being released all through Friday and Saturday as the inflows were steady though no heavy rainfall was reported in the catchment area of the project. About 900 cusecs of water was also being released into the left canal since the last few days.
The present quantum of water in the reservoir was 7.14 tmcft as against its capacity of 7.6 tmcft. Engineering officials told The Hindu that the gate would be closed in case the inflows ease.
