Heavy rains pounding Telangana, in particular the northern districts, over the previous few days have pushed the Kadem dam to the brink of eruption, with articulate officers on Wednesday night declaring that the topic turned into “previous human preserve a watch on”.
The water level of the Godavari river also crossed the third warning level of 53 feet at Bhadrachalam at 11.55 am on Wednesday. Round 4 pm, the water level turned into 53.1 feet, with officers waiting for the water level to rise to 63 feet, now not witnessed in decades.
Round 10.30 pm on Wednesday, the Kadem dam turned into discharging three lakh cusecs of water, the restrict for which it turned into designed.
However, the inflows, following day-to-day rains of 20-30 cm per day within the dam’s catchment areas over the previous few days, resulted in a wide inflow of 5 lakh cusecs.
“It’s a once-in-500-years more or less inflows that the dam is experiencing,” an authentic acknowledged.
As of Wednesday evening, the cumbersome reservoir level (FRL) of the Kadem dam stood at 705 feet, against a most of 700 feet.
The corrupt neglect of the dam’s repairs also came to the fore, as officers had been in a home to unable to delivery one of 18 sluice gates, because it remained dysfunctional. This gate turned into damaged several years ago but turned into now not repaired. As an different, the zigzag gate turned into pulled wait on into location and sealed, officers told Deccan Memoir.
BJP MP Soyam Babu Rao blamed the authorities for now not releasing funds for repairs, claiming it had endangered the lives of thousands.
However, irrigation officers had been of the study about that the topic would live grim despite the proven truth that the gate turned into functioning.
“Even though the 18th gate turned into functioning, it would have allowed one more 20,000 cusecs of discharge. With 5 lakh cusecs coming in as of evening, and whole discharge of three lakh cusecs being managed, there is nothing more anyone can create a form of than hope that the inflows will fall and the dam stays safe. Essentially the most productive thing that can also be done is to restrict the injure to lives, which has already been done by evacuating other folks from doable inclined areas in case of a unexpected heavy flood from the dam,” an irrigation authentic told Deccan Memoir.
Even supposing the constructing of the Kadem dam is anticipated to live safe, worries concerning the flanks surfaced, as they’re made of earth (clay and mud), as a replacement of concrete. Officers location free around 900 cusecs of water from the dam’s left canal, resulting in a series of breaches of the canal bund.
The canal is an venerable constructing and has now not been maintained effectively over the years, as a most discharge of 450 cusecs turned into allowed over the previous few years. The heavier drift on Wednesday placed extra stress on the constructing.
Minister Allola Indrakaran Reddy turned into end to the Kadem dam to supervise evacuations of around 25 villages. However, he had to take hang of a 150-kilometre detour to achieve Nirmal, as several downstream areas had been flooded and motorway connectivity slash off.
Wide swathes of Khanapur, Kadem, Mamida, and Pandavpur towns, along with villages within the neighborhood, suffered energy outages for the full day.
In the meantime, Bhadradri-Kothagudem collector Anudeep Durishetty raised the alert over conceivable flooding of the district attributable to the expand in Godavari’s water ranges.
Officers opened 18 sluice gates of the Taliperu medium irrigation mission at Cherla to discharge 53,537 cusecs of excess water downstream.
Coal manufacturing at SCCL opencast mines in Kothagudem, Yellandu, Manugur and Sathupalli turned into hampered and coal reserves at stockyards had been declining, officers acknowledged.
The Sri Ram Sagar Mission (SRSP) also obtained floodwater inflow of 4.18 lakh cusecs against an outflow of 4.56 lakh cusecs, raising fears of flooding in surrounding areas, following which officers opened 32 gates.
The Yellampally mission also obtained an inflow of 11.37 lakh cusecs against an outflow of 12.03 lakh cusecs.
Among a form of worst-hit aspects of the articulate turned into Manthani town, which turned into fully inundated.
A whole lot of towns and villages in undivided Karimnagar districts had been also submerged.
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