KRS almost full
The Hindu
The water level at the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir across the Cauvery was 124.35 ft. at 9 p.m. on Wednesday and expected to reach the Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of 124.80 ft. in due course. This
The water level at the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) reservoir across the Cauvery was 124.35 ft. at 9 p.m. on Wednesday and expected to reach the Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of 124.80 ft. in due course.
This is for the first time in recent decades that the dam is set to attain the FRL during a monsoon cycle as late as in the last week of October.
The water level had reached 123.75 ft. at 6 p.m. on Tuesday inching its way up towards the FRL. The dam authorities said that the backwater span increases with the rise in the reservoir level and hence the process tends to get delayed in case the inflow is not very high. The rate of inflow was around 12,530 cusecs at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, down from 17,972 cusecs on Tuesday, and the area that gets submerged when the dam attains the FRL is nearly 129 sq km.
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