ANANTAPUR: A site visitors jam stretching over a 10km distance used to be reported en route to Srisailam Dam within the ghat section on Sunday as a result of heavy arrivals of devotees and tourists. They thronged the dam home where 10 crest gates were lifted and water discharged.
Srisailam dam sees an infinite turnout of folk coming to journey the contemplate of discharge of water from the reservoir.
In the end of holidays and weekends, devotees attain from AP, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra to Srisailam for darshan of Lord Mallikarjuna Swamy and pray at the Goddess Bramarambhika temples. They talk over with Srisailam dam on Sundays.
The site visitors along the 10km distance used to be disrupted against the dam and vehicles needed to end for a pair of hours to distinct the high-tail.
“Web page visitors used to be hit from Srisailam temple street to the Hatakeswaram essential entrance. Police rushed to the placement and monitored site visitors within the ghat section up until the Srisailam dam situation,” police said.
“We got caught within the site visitors for added than two hours along the ghat street but enjoyed the scenes at Srisailam dam with all its gated lifted,” said Dhananjay from Hospet in Karnataka.
Srisailam EO Lavanna said indispensable arrangements were made for the talk over with of the devotees. “We were anticipating wide crowds all by the month of Shravanam and also stopped sparsha darshanam as a result of the season of heavy high-tail.”
On Sunday evening, Srisailam dam recorded an influx of 3.96 lakh cusecs and 3.95 lakh out waft downstream along with energy generation from both left and exact canals. The dam used to be maintained with 212.77tmc-toes and storage means at 884.51-toes stage. The general 26 gates were lifted at the Nagarjuna Sagar dam,” the EO said.
The Tungabhadra dam used to be releasing 1.06 lakh cusecs into the river. The low-lying areas including historical structures and temples were submerged as a result of the waft of the river water. The historical Lord Sri Rama temple at Hampi used to be submerged as also all its statues, reports said.
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