For the first time, the Singur reservoir located in Pulkal mandal of Sangareddy district was filled to the brim in the month of July. The reservoir capacity is 29.91 tmcft.
With heavy rains in the catchment areas of Karnataka and Maharashtra, Irrigation officials were forced to lift the crest gates on Saturday. While two crest gates were lifted at about 10 a.m., another gate was lifted at about 1 p.m. by two metres. Three crest gates — 9, 10 and 11 — were opened and about 34,490 cusecs of water were released in the afternoon.
However, by Sunday noon, two crest gates were closed at 11 a.m. and about 12,000 cusecs of water, coming from upstream areas, were being released through gate 11. Since Sunday, about 3.5 tmcft water had been released, according to Deputy Executive Engineer C. Nagaraju. It was expected that the outflow may continue for another 24 hours as the inflows were coming from catchment areas, mostly Bidar and surrounding areas in neighbouring Karnataka as well as within Telangana.
