Water from Kabini reaches Tamil Nadu

Krishnagiri: With greater inflow into the Kabini dam in neighbouring Karnataka, the level of Cauvery water entering the lower riparian state of Tamil Nadu has increased.

The inflow here into Bilugundulu was recorded at over 20,000 cusecs at around 3.50 pm on Friday. The increase in the water level is because of the surplus discharge from the KRS and Kabini reservoirs in the upper riparian state.

Most of the inflow entering here via Biligundulu of Krishnagiri is from the Kabini dam in HD Kotte taluk of Mysore district in Karnataka. Kabini had an inflow of 76,486 cusec on Friday due to heavy rain in its water catchment areas including Wayanad district of Kerala.

As the reservoir level touched 2281.30 feet against its full storage capacity of 2284.00 feet, the outflow of Kabini was maintained at the level of 77,979 cusec.

The KRS dam in Mysore of Karnataka and another water source from the Cauvery for Tamil Nadu has a poor outflow of 424 cusecs when the dam’s inflow was 51,152 cusecs, including 32,841 cusecs of water received from Harangi and Hemavathi dams of that state. The present storage level of the dam touched 97.50 feet against its full storage capacity of 124.80 feet.

The Dharmapuri district administration has made elaborate arrangements to handle any situation that may arise due to heavy inflows into the Cauvery of Tamil Nadu.

Coracle services may be suspended and picnickers will not be allowed to enter the Cauvery in the waterfalls area in Hogenakkal of Dharmapuri.