Discharge of flood at Krishna Basin dams in AP-TS up again

It makes work of re-installing a gate at Pulichintala difficult

Discharge of flood at all Krishna Basin dams in the two Telugu States has gone up again on Thursday, despite the receding inflow and outflow at the upstream dams Almatti and Narayanpur in Karnataka, as the water storage in them is being maintained at near capacity/full reservoir level. According to the Irrigation Department authorities, the discharge of flood at Nagarjunasagar which was around 99,000 cusecs, including 64,500 cusecs from the 8 spillway gates lifted for 5 ft height each and 34,100 cusecs from power generation at 6 a.m., has gone up to nearly 2.73 lakh cusecs, including 2.39 lakh cusecs from 16 spillway gates lifted for 10 ft height each and 34,000 cusecs from power generation at 6 p.m. Inflow and outflow of water, including the water release to different canal systems based on the project, was being maintained at over 2.85 lakh cusecs and the storage at 310.8 tmc ft against its capacity of 312 tmc ft. Water level was 589.6 ft against FRL of 590 ft.