With the floods continuing, the villagers residing along the Godavari river bund are in panic in the Eluru and Konaseema districts. Officers on flood duty have been put on alert in the tail-end areas of West Godavari district.
The flood level at Bhadrachalam in Telangana was put at 43 feet on July 23 (Sunday). The officials here were discharging 9 lakh cusecs downstream.
The water level at Polavaram stood at about 11.6 metres, and the discharge into the sea was 8 lakh cusecs. At the Sir Arthur Cotton (SAC) barrage at Dowleswaram, the water level stood at 10.5 feet. Irrigation officials were discharging about 7.8 lakh cusecs downstream.
