Reservoirs across Krishna full with water; four gates of Srisailam opened
ANANTAPUR: Reservoirs across the Krishna basin remained at full water capacity on Monday due to constant inflows, following which four gates of Srisailam were lifted to release excess water to downstream areas, including for power generation.
Many reservoirs in AP, Karnataka and Telangana were at full capacity, officials said.
Srisailam reservoir was being maintained with 99.55 per cent storage capacity and at 214tmc-ft as 1.82 lakh cusecs of water came in from upstream areas and the outflows towards Nagarjunasagar was at 1.52 lakh cusecs on Monday.
Similarly, Nagarjunasagar dam reached its full storage capacity of 312.05tmc-ft followed by 1.90 lakh cusecs of inflows and outflows of 1.81 lakh cusecs towards downstream. The Tungabhadra reservoir in Hospet taluk of Vijayanagar district was at full storage level of 100.86tmc-ft.
TB dam secretary Nagamohan told DC that the inflow was about 12,350 cusecs into the reservoir followed by 29.054 cusecs of outflows into the river.
Similarly, the upstream major project Almatti reported 128tmc-ft at 98.68 pc storage capacity with a flood cushion of 1.71tmc-ft and 30,000 cusecs of inflows and a matching outflow towards Krishna river.
In addition, the Pulichintala project has 33.18tmc-ft of water and 1.04 lakh cusecs of inflows along with outflows of 1 lakh cusecs.
The Prakasham barrage in Krishna district was having full storage and water was being released to downstream areas of the order of 59,592 cusecs while the inflows were of 1.05 lakh cusecs.
Heavy rain in the region has resulted in the filling of several reservoirs in Krishna basin, like the Chitravathi balancing reservoir on Anantapur and Kadapa borders. Irrigation authorities said Chitravati was full by 99.40 per cent with 9.94tmc-ft of water following an inflow of 1,490 cusecs of water through various sources.
The major storage point of Anantapur district, the Penna Ahobilam balancing reservoir of Pennar basin, got 4.68tmc-ft with 710 cusecs of inflows from TB HLC and the Handri Neeva Sujala Shravanthi project.
The incessant rain, however, hurt the groundnut crop in Rayalaseema region because this was the right time for strengthening of the nuts, which required a dry spell.
Farmers whose crops were not seriously affected have started harvesting in most parts of the region. The majority of farmers incurred heavy losses due to massive failure of groundnut in kharif season.
