Tungabhadra Rising And 33 Gates Up

The spate of flood water flow remains unabated to Tungabhadra dam and it opened up all 33 gates sending out 1.5 lakh cuses while inflow remained at 1 lakh cusecs. The maximum capacity of the dam is till 1633 feet while water is up to 1632.39 feet already. The released water is reaching RDS project. Similarly, flood-gates of Almatti and Narayanapur in Karnataka and Jurala in Telangana have been opened to release waters in the range of 1.5 lakh cusecs.

Tungabhadra dam authorities have issued flood warnings in both Bellary and Kurnool districts that lie along the Tungabhadra. They tell that the inflow in the upstream areas will be “on the rise” for at least a week.

Engineers at Srisailam say “By Sunday evening or Monday morning, we are expecting total inflow of around three lakh cusecs from both the Tungabhadra and Krishna rivers. We have been told by Karnataka engineers about the inflow ‘rising’ further for at least a week,”.

At present, the water level at the Srisailam dam has touched 845 ft, against full reservoir level of 885 ft. The capacity has reached 72 TMC ft against total capacity of 215 TMC ft.  If similar inflows continue for a week, even the Srisailam flood-gates maybe opened to release water into the downstream Krishna river. There still remains a flood cushion of about 130 TMC ft at Srisailam, and if the dam reaches its full capacity, water will be released to Nagarjunasagar dam where a flood cushion of about 180 TMC ft remains. That is if the the luck with flood waters continue.