Hyderabad: The Srisailam project received 7 tmc feet of water from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon, due to the release of water from upstream dams in Karnataka. The inflows took the storage at the dam to 38.01 tmc ft, against the full capacity of 215.81 tmc ft. The water stood at 816 feet against the full reservoir level (FRL) of 885 feet.
However, the average inflows fell from 1,76,050 cusecs on Friday to 1,02,346 cusecs on Saturday. Almatti was releasing all the 1,73,823 cusecs it was receiving on Friday evening while the Narayanpur dam was releasing 1,88,930 cusecs against inflows of 1,83,633 cusecs. Water at the Jurala project was at 1044.32 feet as against at full reservoir level of 1,045 feet.
The inflows took the storage at the dam to 38.01 tmc ft, against the full capacity of 215.81 tmc ft. The water stood at 816 feet against the full reservoir level (FRL) of 885 feet. However, the average inflows fell from 1,76,050 cusecs on Friday to 1,02,346 cusecs on Saturday. Almatti was releasing all the 1,73,823 cusecs it was receiving on Friday evening while the Narayanpur dam was releasing 1,88,930 cusecs against inflows of 1,83,633 cusecs. Water at the Jurala project was at 1044.32 feet as against at full reservoir level of 1,045 feet.
Unless there is heavy rain in the Mahabaleswar region of Maharashtra, the inflows into Srisailam may taper off. The Nagarjunasagar project received bleak inflows of 1,414 cusecs in the past 24 hours. Still, the situation was better when compared with last year when Srisailam had 19.32 tmc ft with the water standing at 777.10 feet and Nagarjunasagar 117.69 tmc ft at 501.50 feet. The farmers under these two major projects are pinning hopes on inflows.
The Tungabhadra dam released 69,451 cusecs, and some water from this will reach Srisailam. The Tungabhadra dam had 94.17 tmc ft of water against the full reservoir level of 100.86 tmc ft. On the Godavari basin, the Kaddam project was nearly full, with water standing at 697.65 feet (7 tmc ft) as against the full reservoir level of of 700 feet (7.6 tmc ft). The Yellampalli project had 12.77 tmc ft of water against a total capacity of 20.18 tmc ft.
Singur, Nizamsagar, SRSP and lower Manair dam had poor inflows. Singur had 7.8 tmc ft of water (full reservoir level: 29.91 tmc ft), Nizamsagar 2.39 tmc ft (17.80 tmc fr), Sriramsagar 14.65 tmc ft (90.31 tmc ft) and Lower Manair 3.49 tmc ft (24.07 tmc ft). The average inflows during the past 24 hours were 2,955 cusecs at Yellampalli, 1,538 cusecs at Kaddam, 238 cusecs at Lower Manair dam, 4,906 cusecs at SRSP and zero inflows recorded at Nizamsagar and Singur projects.
