Hyderabad: Nagarjunasagar dam has almost reached full reservoir level after a gap of four years. On Thursday, the water level in the dam stood at 582 ft against FRL of 590 ft. Officials are expected to lift the gates in a day or two to release water downstream. Nagarjuna Sagar’s gates were last lifted in September 2014 after the dam attained FRL. The dam received an inflow of 73,364 cusecs on Thursday. The current water storage in the dam stands at 289.20 TMCs against it's full storage capacity of 312 TMCs.
The outflow was 3,144 cusecs through the right canal, 6,797 through the left canal and 33,717 cusecs through the power house for generation of hydel power. Nagarjuna Sagar received good inflows with the lifting of Srisailam gates over the past one week. However, officials closed Srisailam gates with no inflows receding from upstream Tungabhadra, Almatti, Narayanar and Jurala projects.
The outflow of 73,364 cusecs from Srisailam was on account of power generation. On Thursday, Srisailam water level stood at 882.90 ft against FRL of 885 ft. The projects' current water storage was 203.69 TMCs against full storage capacity of 215 TMCs. Srisailam received 1,24,969 cusecs of inflow on Thursday.
