Rains in the catchment areas of Krishna and Godavari rivers due to the cyclonic circulation over south-west Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood over the last few days continue to get good inflows into all major projects in the State with many of them discharging surplus flood from their spillways.
According to the engineers of Irrigation Department, the current water year has been among the best in terms of flood days spread across July to October. In terms of discharge of surplus flood, nearly 5,800 tmc ft of Godavari water has already gone down into sea from Dowlaiswaram Barrage and nearly 900 tmc ft volume of flood let down from Prakasam Barrage till date.
“The spillway discharge of flood at Jurala has been for 62 days since July 13 when the crest gates were lifted for the first time this flood season. Similarly, spillway discharge of flood at Srisailam has been for 50 days at Srisailam since July 23, for 45 days at Nagarjunasagar since August 11 and for 66 days at Sriramsagar since July 10,” a flood monitoring official explained.
