Srisailam Reservoir started receiving first major flood of the season on Thursday evening following the release of water through the spillways of Tungabhadra Dam in Karnataka and Jurala Project on Wednesday night, respectively. About 31,000 cusecs of inflows was recorded.
The Central Water Commission (CWC) has issued a forecast stating that about 55,000 cusecs of flood water will reach Srisailam by Friday morning to begin with and will rise steadily as the spillway discharge from the two reservoirs across Tungabhadra and Krishna rivers, respectively, in the upstream is being increased.
A flood warning issued by the authorities of Tungabhadra Dam Board, the discharge of flood from the spillway and power house of the reservoir would gradually increase to 1.5 lakh cusecs by Friday. They asked the authorities of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to take precautionary measures by alerting the people in the habitations along the river course downstream about the impending increase in flood.
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According to the CWC forecast, flood to Tungabhdra Reservoir would remain steady at above 60,000 cusecs till Friday night and that to Almatti, Narayanpur and Jurala projects would increase to over 1,76,500 cusecs, over 1,64,200 cusecs and over 1,71,200 cusecs, respectively, till Friday evening.
The flood monitoring officials at Jurala project lifted 11 crest gates on Thursday night to let out nearly 62,000 cusecs of flood into the river course in addition to discharge of over 30,000 cusecs after power generation.
“Six gates are lifted for 2 meters height, three gates for 1 meter height, one gate for 1.5 meters and one gate for 0.5 meters to discharge the flood water”, officials at Jurala Dam stated.
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At 9 p.m. on Thursday, inflow into Jurala was recorded at about 1.2 lakh cusecs and over 99,200 cusecs was being let out including about 93,000 cusecs discharged into the river course and over 6,000 cusecs to canal and lift irrigation schemes based on the reservoir.
Meanwhile, about 25,000 cusecs flood into Ujjani Dam on Bheema river, a major tributary of Krishna, in Maharashtra was recorded on Thursday with a forecast of increase in it.