Rise in flood to Jurala from 2,000 cusecs at 6 a.m. to 34,000 cusecs at 9 p.m. on Saturday with the help of supplementation of water released from Sannati Barrage across Bhima river in Karnataka has enabled Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TS-Genco) to take up hydel generation in the 6×39 megawatt power station at Jurala.
The Genco authorities switched on one unit after 8 p.m. on Saturday. This is likely to allow them to commence generation at the 6x40 MW Lower Jurala hydel station too soon. Last year, the Lower Jurala hydel station was switched on first on July 5 with the supplementation of water from rivulets joining Krishna in the downstream of Jurala project. Generation at Jurala commenced five days later.
Engineers at Jurala stated that the project was getting flood mainly from Bhima with some supplementation from the local catchment areas too. In the upstream of Jurala, flood to Almatti increased to 1.11 lakh cusecs on Saturday night and the storage increased to 48.5/129.7 tmc ft leaving a flood cushion of about 80.5 tmc ft.
