Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh continued to witness heavy inflows on Tuesday. Several low-lying areas in NTR and Krishna districts of the State were inundated as the inflows and outflows increased to 3.4 lakh cusecs by 1 p.m. at the Prakasam Barrage.
However, the inflows came down to 2.94 lakh cusecs by 5 p.m. and the same amount of surplus water was being discharged into the sea.
The outflows at Nagarjuna Sagar came down to 99,164 cusecs by noon and it was 1.31 lakh cusecs at Srisailam. The inflows to Srisailam are likely to increase again.
