Alert sounded for Musi River
The Hindu
More gates of twin reservoirs lifted to let out inflows
A large quantity of surplus water arriving into the twin reservoirs is being let downstream into River Musi following heavy downpour in the catchment areas. Six flood gates of the Osmansagar reservoir and 10 gates of Himayatsagar have been lifted to let out 2,100 cusecs and 7,700 cusecs of water, respectively.
While four gates of the Osmansagar had already been lifted by two feet on Monday night, they were further lifted to three feet on Tuesday morning, apart from two more gates being lifted to the same height.
With regard to Himayatsagar, only two gates were lifted by one foot on Monday night. On Tuesday, eight more gates were lifted phase-wise, all by two feet, and the height of the earlier two gates was increased to three feet, in order to cope with the 5,000 cusecs of inflows.

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