Discharge of flood water from the spillway Sriramsagar Project was taken up on Monday morning, 15 days earlier compared to last year, as there has been a sizeable flood from August 15 with heavy rains in the immediate upstream catchment areas in Telangana and Maharashtra.
The engineers of the project commenced the discharge of flood from the spillway around 10.40 a.m. by lifting 9 crest gates to let out 25,000 cusecs into the river course. “Around 12.30 p.m., 15 more gates were lifted to increase the discharge to 75,000 cusecs and at 1.25 p.m., 10 more gates were lifted to further increase the discharge to 1.25 lakh cusecs”, a project engineer monitoring the flood said.
Later, five more gates were lifted around 4 p.m. to increase the discharge to 2 lakh cusecs from a total of 39 gates and by 8 p.m. one of the gates was closed and the total discharge had come down to over 1.32 lakh cusecs from 38 gates as inflow to the project had declined.
The project engineers stated that spillway gates of the projects were lifted on September 2 in 2024, on July 27 in 2023, on July 10 in 2022, on July 22 in 2021, on September 14 in 2020 and on September 21 in 2019.
As part of the plans to fill Mid Manair and Lower Manair Dams, as also the reservoirs linked to Kaleshwaram project such as Annapurna, Ranganayaka, Mallannasagar, Kondapochammasagar, Nrusimhasagar (Baswapur) reservoirs, which get water from Mid Manair Dam, the Sriramsagar authorities commenced release of water to Flood Flow Canal on Sunday morning.
