Hyderabad: The Srisailam dam received 17 tmc ft of water in just a day even as the inflows tapered off to one lakh cusecs on Sunday.
Srisailam now has water till 848.30 ft against its full reservoir level of 885 ft, and holds 77 TMC ft against its capacity of 215 tmc ft according to project chief engineer C. Narayana Reddy.
Data on Sunday evening showed the inflows from the Sunkesula project on the Tungabhadra river into Srisailam fell from 1.2 lakh cusecs on Saturday to 34,000 cusecs by Sunday. The inflow from Jurala on the Krishna was recorded at one lakh cusecs at 6 pm.
At Jurala, where the Krishna enters the state, the inflows were recorded at 88,000 cusecs at 6 pm; the project was letting out 97,000 cusecs through the spillway and the power house.
The outflows from Narayanpur dam on the Krishna and the Ujjain dam on the Bheema fell, but the inflows into Jurala were sustained due to rain in the region between those two dams.
According to Jurala executive engineer N. Sridhar, the project may get about 90,000 cusecs of water for three more days.
Besides starting power generation, Jurala project officials were releasing water to Nettempadu, Bheema, Koilsagar lift schemes as well as to the parallel, left and right main canals.
