After Srisailam, Nagarjunasagar heads for full reservoir level

With hefty inflows from various resources and huge discharge of above five lakh cusecs from Srisailam upstream, the Nagarjunasagar dam is inching shut to complete reservoir level.

Barely a 7 days ago, it was at about 510 feet as from complete reservoir level of 590 feet, which has a storage capacity of 312 TMC. As of five pm on Sunday, the dam level has shot up to 583.50 feet, and the h2o storage of 293 TMC or ninety four per cent of a complete reservoir holding capacity. Whilst Srisailam is getting five.3 lakh cusecs and releasing about five.one lakh cusecs, Nagrajunasagar gets about four.37 lakh cusecs.

Specified the present-day flood move, it is most likely to get filled up within just a day forcing dam authorities to release h2o lifting up gates and making electrical power from its pump houses.

Augurs nicely for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Whilst Srisailam dam has a total installed capacity of 1670 MW, Nagarjunasagar, an more mature multipurpose challenge, has an 816 MW capacity.

The filling up of each Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar dams on the Krishna augurs nicely for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as early as August one. It aids in irrigation and drinking h2o provides and allows hydel electrical power technology in each still left and proper financial institution powerhouses at Srisailam and electrical power house at Nagarjunasagar.

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

With at minimum two more months of monsoons, each AP and Telangana have factors to be satisfied.