After Srisailam, Nagarjunasagar heads for full reservoir level

With hefty inflows from multiple resources and substantial discharge of around five lakh cusecs from Srisailam upstream, the Nagarjunasagar dam is inching near to comprehensive reservoir amount.

Scarcely a 7 days ago, it was at about 510 ft as against comprehensive reservoir amount of 590 ft, which has a storage capacity of 312 TMC. As of five pm on Sunday, the dam amount has shot up to 583.fifty ft, and the water storage of 293 TMC or 94 for each cent of a comprehensive reservoir holding capacity. While Srisailam is obtaining five.3 lakh cusecs and releasing about five.1 lakh cusecs, Nagrajunasagar gets about 4.37 lakh cusecs.

Presented the current flood stream, it is very likely to get stuffed up inside of a working day forcing dam authorities to release water lifting up gates and generating electric power from its pump houses.

Augurs effectively for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

While Srisailam dam has a whole installed capacity of 1670 MW, Nagarjunasagar, an more mature multipurpose project, has an 816 MW capacity.

The filling up of both of those Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar dams on the Krishna augurs effectively for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as early as August 1. It helps in irrigation and ingesting water provides and allows hydel electric power era in both of those remaining and proper financial institution powerhouses at Srisailam and electric power property at Nagarjunasagar.

The Irrigation authorities have alerted villages alongside the river course with additional floodwater very likely to come in from upstream Karnataka dams- Narayanpur and Almatti into Jurala and then into Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar.

With at minimum two additional months of monsoons, both of those AP and Telangana have causes to be joyful.