Karnataka: KRS dam only 4 feet away from dead storage level
The dam authorities have already announced it has no water for summer crops this year.
Mysuru: Although the water level plummeted to barely four feet from dead storage at the Krishna Raja Sagar dam on Monday, arrangements have been made to continue supplying water from it to Bengaluru and places enroute. The dam authorities have already announced it has no water for summer crops this year.
According to sources, water can be drawn up to a maximum level of 56 feet at KRS beyond its dead storage level.
Its storage was 78.96 feet as against its capacity to hold 124.80 feet of water on Monday. While water is usually drawn from the Kabini reservoir to meet the needs of Bengaluru from February onwards, it has been releasing water to the city from November last year. The KRS currently has a live storage of 5.932 TMC and gross storage of 10.333 TMC, Kabini has live storage of 2.326 TMC and a gross storage of 6.175 TMC, and Hemavathi has dead storage of 3.54 TMC and gross storage of 4.883 TMC, according to official sources. While Bengaluru is supplied 1.2 TMC of water , the places enroute receive 0.1 TMC and Mysuru , 0.3 TMC from the reservoirs.
Owing to the drought 124 private tankers will for the first time be used to supply water to 124 villages in Mysuru, HD Kote, Hunsur and Nanjangud taluks for three months at a cost of Rs 401.96 lakhs. The Mysore City Corporation is also likely to pump water from its five filling stations in 22 tankers.