Heavy discharge of flood continues at Srisailam with 10 gates lifted

Storage of Nagarjunasagar cross 200 tmc ft against its capacity of 312 tmc ft

A heavy discharge of flood through the spillway is continuing at Srisailam with the reservoir getting heavy inflow from Almatti-Narayanpur-Jurala projects and some supplementation from Tungabhadra dam. The discharge of flood, which was commenced on Wednesday evening with the engineers lifting two crest gates for 10 feet height each to discharge 53,500 cusecs from the spillway, was increased to 1.93 lakh cusecs by lifting five more gates after 6 a.m. After 7 a.m. three more gates were lifted taking the total to 10 to further increase the flood dishcarge to over 2.76 lakh cusecs. As the water storage in the reservoir approached 211 tmc ft against its capacity of 215.8 tmc ft, the authorities lifted the 10 spillway gates by another 5 feet each, taking the vent height to 15 feet, to take the discharge to 3.76 lakh cusecs, with a steady flood of over 4.5 lakh cusecs kept reaching Srisailam dam. In addition to the spillway discharge, another 55,000 cusecs to 65,000 cusecs water was also being let into the river course with power generation in the right and left bank power houses.