Reservoirs’ combined storage inching towards 200 tmc ft
The Hindu
On Wednesday, it was 199.165 tmc ft, representing 89% of capacity of 90 reservoirs
The combined storage of reservoirs in the State is inching towards 200 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft). On Wednesday, it was 199.165 tmc ft, accounting for 89% of the capacity of 90 reservoirs.
On the same day last year, the figure was about 140 tmc ft, accounting for 63% of their capacity. The total capacity of the reservoirs in the State is 224.297 tmc ft.
Of the existing storage, the share of three reservoirs in the Cauvery basin — Mettur, Bhavanisagar and Amaravathy — is two-thirds with 126.827 tmc ft which, in turn, includes 91.883 tmc ft at Mettur, 31.131 tmc ft at Bhavanisagar and 3.8 tmc ft at Amaravathy. All three are almost full.
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