Water release to Sriramsagar ayacut to commence today
The prospects of gateway projects of Telugu States in the Krishna Basin, Jurala and Srisailam, getting a sizeable flood to improve their low storage appear grim till the mid-first week of August, even if the ongoing flood to immediate major reservoirs in the upstream – Almatti, Narayanpur, Tungabhadra and Ujjani in Karnataka and Maharashtra – sustains.
Flood cushion of Almatti and Narayanpur dams in Karnataka came down to about 71 tmc ft as at 8 pm on Tuesday as they were getting a sustained flood of 1.16 lakh cusecs and 13,700 cusecs, respectively. Their storage swelled to 75.9/129.7 tmc ft and 20.56/37.64 tmc ft with the help of inflows over the last 10 days. Similarly, Tungabhadra dam was getting a flood of 83,400 cusecs with storage reaching 34/105.8 tmc ft.
