The Prakasam Barrage is likely to receive five lakh cusecs of floodwater on Friday as dams and reservoirs upstream of the Krishna are brimming with heavy inflows.
Officials said that the Srisailam Dam had lifted all 10 gates to a height of 12 feet and released 4.51 lakh cusecs of floodwater. Also, at Nagarjuna Sagar, around 4.13 lakh cusecs of water was discharged. Officials at the Pulichintala project released 3.97 lakh cusecs due to heavy inflows.
As a result, the floodwater may reach the barrage in the early hours of Friday, said Superintending Engineer S. Tirumala Rao on Thursday.