After Srisailam, Nagarjunasagar heads for full reservoir level

With major inflows from many resources and large discharge of more than five lakh cusecs from Srisailam upstream, the Nagarjunasagar dam is inching shut to full reservoir degree.

Hardly a 7 days in the past, it was at about 510 toes as against full reservoir degree of 590 toes, which has a storage capability of 312 TMC. As of five pm on Sunday, the dam degree has shot up to 583.fifty toes, and the h2o storage of 293 TMC or ninety four for every cent of a full reservoir keeping capability. Whilst Srisailam is getting five.three lakh cusecs and releasing about five.1 lakh cusecs, Nagrajunasagar gets about 4.37 lakh cusecs.

Presented the current flood circulation, it is very likely to get loaded up within a day forcing dam authorities to launch h2o lifting up gates and making electricity from its pump residences.

Augurs very well for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Whilst Srisailam dam has a whole put in capability of 1670 MW, Nagarjunasagar, an older multipurpose challenge, has an 816 MW capability.

The filling up of the two Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar dams on the Krishna augurs very well for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as early as August 1. It aids in irrigation and drinking h2o materials and enables hydel electricity era in the two remaining and right financial institution powerhouses at Srisailam and electricity house at Nagarjunasagar.

The Irrigation authorities have alerted villages along the river training course with much more floodwater very likely to arrive in from upstream Karnataka dams- Narayanpur and Almatti into Jurala and then into Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar.

With at minimum two much more months of monsoons, the two AP and Telangana have motives to be content.