HYDERABAD: After three decades, the Nizamsagar project reached plump reservoir stage (FRL) as early as in July on Sunday. With the Manjeera bringing copious inflows, officers opened 14 gates to launch water. After receiving updates of inflows, they closed six gates.
The century-mature Nizamsagar project changed into as soon as constructed across river Manjeera at Banjapally village in erstwhile Nizamabad district (at this time in Kamareddy district) by the Nizam authorities. Attributable to loads of tasks setting up upstream of river Manjeera in Karnataka, inflows into Nizamsagar ceaselessly fell.
Singur, a balancing reservoir of Nizamsagar, changed into as soon as constructed in Medak district but changed into as soon as utilised to believe drinking water to Hyderabad for 3 decades. As a consequence, the Nizamsagar project passe to gain filled most effective in unhurried August.
To complement the Nizamsagar predominant canal, the Kalyani reservoir changed into as soon as constructed in Yellareddy Assembly constituency. The TRS authorities planned to private the Nizamsagar project with water from the Kaleshwaram diagram.
This twelve months, approved rainfall in catchment areas and upstream of the Manjeera elevated the inflows. As a consequence, water at the Nizamsagar project reached 1402.92 toes on Sunday as against its FRL of 1405.00 toes. The reservoir currently holds 14.881 tmc toes (thousand million cubic toes) of water.
Nizamsagar project assistant executive engineer Shiva Prasad acknowledged that they had been releasing your total 56,000 cusecs of water that the project changed into as soon as receiving. Irrigation department chief engineer T.Srinivas visited the Nizamsagar project on Sunday and reviewed the flood area.
The big volume of water flowing down the Manjeera submerge the Nizam-technology inter-instruct bridge at Salur reach Bodhan in Nizamabad district, raise web site visitors between Telangana and Maharashtra on the Nizamabad-Nanded highway to a cease. One other bridge across the Manjeera at Salur changed into as soon as abandoned two years previously due to the technical issues.
Water at the Sriramsagar project (SRSP) reached 1087.6 toes on Sunday. The project is receiving around 82,740 cusecs and officers released 74,952 cusecs downstream into the Godavari by opening 18 gates. The rated means for the SRSP is 90 tmc toes and the project now has 75.145 tmc toes.
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