ANANTAPUR: The Srisailam reservoir received filled to its stout capacity due to arrival of floodwaters from upstream reservoirs and the Krishna river mattress on Friday.
Dam authorities lifted five gates, discharging 2.02 lakh of outflows against Nagarjunasagar as additionally the vitality know-how units of the dam.
Water storage used to be at 214.84tmc-ft with 99.55 laptop as in opposition to inappropriate capacity at an FRL of 215.81tmc at 6pm on Friday. The water level used to be recorded at 884.84 ft.
This used to be the first time in a decade that Srisailam touched the FRL due to heavy floods in upstream substances of Tungabhadra and Almatti dams of Krishna basin. Extra, smartly timed heavy rains at some point of the South West Monsoon added the extra quantum to occupy Srisailam early within the season.
A surprising rise within the inflows from downstream areas due to heavy rains used to be recorded within the neighborhood at the same time as Almatti stopped discharging water whereas the Tungabhadra board confined the discharge to 33000 cusecs of outflows.
Srisailam received inflows of 2.38 lakh with a flood cushion of 0.97tmc. Srisailam dam engineers stated the native heavy rains resulted within the becoming a member of of Krishna river water against Srisailam, for it to attach inappropriate capacity at FRL.
Jurala, Sunkesula and Handri sources with their heavy flows elevated the heavy inflows to Srisailam on Friday.
Nagaarjunasagar dam used to be receiving 1.32 lakh inflows after heavy outflows from Srisailam. About 63,000 cusecs of water used to be aged for vitality know-how from each and each left and correct bank canals.
The foreshore water used to be discharged constantly against the Handri Neeva predominant canal from Malyala against Anantapur and Pothireddypadu against YSR district.
The reservoirs Pathikonda, Jeedipalli of HNSS project and Gandi, as additionally the Chitravathi balancing reservoir of GNSS project were being filled.
AP irrigation authorities assessed that the foreshore initiatives along with SRBC (Srisailam Comely Department Canal) of Rayalaseema will earn extra inflows this time when as in contrast with the outdated seasons.
…