Owing to good rainfall in the Tungabhadra catchment area, the Tungabhadra Reservoir near Hosapete in Vijayanagara district, one of the major reservoirs in the State, has been receiving satisfactory inflow for the last 10 days.
As per information provided by the Tungabhadra Board authorities, the storage in the dam has increased from just 3.911 tmcft on July 10 to 54.138 tmcft at 6 p.m. on Thursday. The hourly inflow into the reservoir was recorded at 1,21,918 cusecs at 6 p.m. The storage capacity of the reservoir is 105.788 tmcft.
The rise of storage level in the reservoir has triggered fresh hopes among farmers in the command areas. Lakhs of acres of agricultural land in Karatagi, Gangavati and Kanakagiri in Koppal district and Manvi, Sindhanur and Raichur taluks in Raichur district are heavily dependent on water from the reservoir for cultivation of crops.
