Kurnool: Srisailam and even the Nagarjunasagar were set for a big bonanza with the upstream Narayanpur recording an inflow of 4.13 lakh, the highest in a decade. Most of this water is being released. Officials said heavy rains were continuing in the upper reaches of Krishna basin in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The Central Water Co-mmission said the trend chart of flood in the Krishna pointed to rising levels. The inflows at Narayanapur were recorded at historic levels in the past 10 years.
After talks with the Maharashtra government, Karnataka has increased the discharge from the Almatti dam to 4 lakh cusecs. On Tuesday, the inflow into Almatti was 2.73 lakh cusec and the discharge 4 lakh cusecs. On Thursday the inflows had increased to 3.62 lakh cusecs.
At 8 pm on Wednesday, the Srisailam dam had 153.17 tmc ft of water, an increase of 16.24 tmc ft in a 24-hour period.
The water level at Nagarjunasagar improved marginally by four feet to 511 feet against the full level of 590 feet.
About 75,444 cusecs of water was let out into the Nagarjunasagar from the power generation utilities at Srisailam. TS Genco was using 42,378 cusecs to generate 900 MW and AP Genco 32,066 cusecs.
Transco CMD Devulapalli Prabhakar Rao reviewed the situation with power station engineers.
Telangana is sharing 200 MW power with Karnataka from the Jurala project. TS Genco set a target of producing 815 MW at Nagarjunasagar and 120 MW at Pulichintala.
