Heavy rains in the upstream catchment areas in Karnataka and Maharashtra and the resultant heavy inflow into projects/barrages there have enabled the Irrigation authorities of Telangana to commence spillway discharge at Jurala and Sriramsagar projects on Thursday.
Release of flood at Almatti and Narayanpur dams and inflows from the local catchment areas made the engineers of Jurala project in the Krishna Basin lift two spillway gates of the dam at 12.05 a.m. on Thursday, the intervening night of Wednesday-Thursday, letting out 8,300 cusecs water.
By noon, the spillway discharge was increased to 27,900 cusecs through 7 crest gates and another 42,600 cusecs was also being let into the river with power generation in six units of the hydel station there. Spillway discharge of flood was taken up on July 11 last year and on July 17 in 2021.
