All major rivers in Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts have been on a spate on Saturday (October 4, 2025) also although the districts had witnessed little rain since Friday (October 3, 2025).
With the continuous heavy inflows from catchment areas of Odisha, the rivers such as Nagavali, Vamsadhara, Mahendra Tanaya and others caused floods in both North Andhra districts in the last few days.
Heavy rains pose flood threat to Srikakulam, Vizianagaram districts
The life of the people living in Vangara, Santhakaviti, Regidi Amadalavalasa, Gajapathinagaram and other places of Vizianagaram district turned miserable under the impact of floods. With the release of water from Thotapalli and Madduvalasa reservoir, the flood water entered several villages and paddy fields of Rajam Assembly constituency of the district.
More than 40,000 cusecs of water has been released from those reservoirs after alerting people living in low lying areas. The district received 1068 mm rainfall on Friday as against the average rainfall of 291.1 on the particular day.
