With a lull in rainfall, water level started declining though at a mild level in the Mullaperiyar dam on Wednesday. The water level at 4 a.m. was 139.20 ft and it declined to 138.90 ft at 4 p.m.
The inflow to the dam has declined and all the 13 shutters are remaining open at 90 cm releasing 8,263 cuecs of water to the Periyar. Tamil Nadu was drawing water at 2,194 cusecs.
However, the water level was remaining stagnant despite the five shutters remaining open in the Cheruthoni dam of the Idukki reservoir. The water level at 4 p.m. was 2,387.40 ft, which was the same level reported at 7 a.m. The shutters two, three, and four had been kept open at 140 cm and shutters one and five at 40 cm, releasing 346.28 cumecs.
