Water released into the river from Tungabhadra Dam
The Hindu
According to an official bulletin, gates were lifted following inflows reaching 1,43,477 cusecs from 75,000 on Saturday and by night the inflows were likely to increase further for the next 24 hours.
The engineers of Tungabhadra Board on Sunday morning released 15,200 cusecs of water into the river from the reservoir by lifting three gates with the water level at the dam in Munirabad in Koppal district of Karnataka reaching 1628.15 feet against 1633 ft. Against the 100.86 tmcft total storage capacity of the reservoir, currently, there are 83.28 tmcft. According to an official bulletin, gates were lifted following inflows reaching 1,43,477 cusecs from 75,000 on Saturday and by night the inflows were likely to increase further as per the Central Water Commission prediction for the next 24 hours. The estimated discharge at Shivamogga is 2,11,890 cusecs and it is raining in the catchment area of the TB Reservoir. The total yield so far in the T.B. Dam this year is 87.77 tmcft. Meanwhile, the water from T.B. Dam that had reached the 105 km point through the Right Bank High-Level Main Canal (HLC) on Wednesday, began flowing into Andhra Pradesh and 900 cusecs will be released constantly for a week till the canal stabilises. The water into Low-Level Canal (LLC) that takes water to Kurnool district also has been released and the water is likely to reach the AP border by tomorrow.More Related News