Hyderabad: The Almatti dam on Saturday morning received more the one lakh cusecs of water the largest inflow so far this season due to continuous heavy rain in the catchment area of the Krishna river in and around Mahabaleswar hills in the Western Ghats in Maharashtra.
At 10 am on Saturday, the inflows crossed 1,08, 874 cusecs and the water level at the Almatti dam reached 1,691.27 feet (full level 1,705 ft) and storage stood at 70 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) (full capacity 130 tmc ft).
According to an official at the Central Water Commission, inflows will increase further to reach 1.5 lakh cusecs by Saturday night. Significant inflows are expected to continue into the next week with heavy rains.
About 33,000 cusecs of water is being released downstream to the Narayanapur dam in Karnataka, where the water stood at 1,603 ft (full level 1615 ft) and storage went up to 23.78 tmc ft (full capacity: 37.5 tmc ft). Once the dam is full and local needs are met, officials will release water to TS where it will reach the Jurala project, which also will get waters from Bhima river catchment after the Ujjaini dam gets filled up. Officials normally release water to canals before storing it in the dams.
In Tungabhadra dam, too, inflows rose to 44,649 cusecs taking the water level at the dam to 1,601 ft (full level 1,633 ft) and storage reached 22 tmc ft (full capacity 100 tmc ft).
Last year on the same day, the dam had 40.39 tmc ft of water and the water level was at 1,612 ft.
The inflows into Jurala, Srisailam, Nagarjunasagar and Pulichintala were in the order of a few hundred cusecs due to rain in local catchment area.
