The Chamarajanagar district administration on July 14 issued an advisory to people living on the banks of the Cauvery river to shift to safer places consequent to an increase in outflow from the reservoirs upstream.
Incessant rains in the catchment area of the Cauvery and the Kabini rivers have augmented the inflow into reservoirs over the last few days. The Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) and Kabini dams upstream are nearly full. As the rate of inflow has not abated, the outflow from the reservoirs has been high.
As on 3 p.m. on July 14, inflow into KRS dam was 77,798 cusecs and the outflow was 86,688 cusecs. At Kabini reservoir, the outflow at Beechanahallin in HD Kote was 28,000 cusecs. The combined discharge from both dams was nearly 1.15 lakh cusecs.
