Flood released by lifting 40 SRSP gates

By lifting 40 gates of Sriramsagar project on Monday around 1.50 lakh cusecs of water released into river Godavari. Around 2 lakh cusecs of inflows reaching Sriramsagar project from upstream areas in Maharashtra and catchment areas in erstwhile Nizamabad and Adilabad districts.

Initially, officials lifted 8 gates and increased it to 40 gates. On the other hand, water released for Kakatiya main canal and flood flow canal. SRSP water level reached 1088.8 feet as against full reservoir level of 1091.0 ft. Storage capacity reached at 72.610 tmc of water. High alert sounded in downstream areas of undivided Nizamabad and Adilabad districts.