Sriramsagar gets 14 tmcft water in two days
The Hindu
Project gets inflows from the upstream Maharashtra and due to rains in local catchment areas
Heavy flood into Sriramsagar Project (SRSP), the gateway project across Godavari in Telangana, has added about 14 tmcft water in 48 hours – from 6 p.m. on Sunday to 6 p.m. on Tuesday – in the reservoir with the help of inflows from the upstream Maharashtra and rains in the local catchment areas in the State. The storage in the reservoir crossed 48 tmcft against its capacity of 90.31 tmcft as of Tuesday evening, with heavy inflows of about 92,600 cusecs reaching the project. Inflows into other projects in the Godavari Basin as also in the Krishna Basin are continuing, although in a small measure. About 46,700 cusecs flood being discharged at Malegaon high-level barrage across Godavari in Maharashtra, in the upstream of Babli, is adding to the inflows into SRSP. According to officials of the Irrigation Department, heavy rains in the catchment areas of Upper Krishna Basin in Karnataka and Maharashtra for the last three days is also expected to increase the inflows into Almatti and Narayanpur projects in Karnataka and its discharge towards Telangana-Andhra Pradesh projects. Nearly 11 cm rain was recorded at Mahabaleshwar, the birthplace of Krishna river and many of its tributaries, and 6 cm rain in Malkhed (Karnataka) and nearly 5.2 cm in Jewangi area during the 24-hour period till 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday is likely to improve inflows into Jurala, which stood at about 2,000 cusecs on Tuesday evening.The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.