Water storage in Nagarjunasagar reservoir reached 258 TMC ft against its capacity of 312 TMC ft by 10 p.m. on Friday even as the water release after power generation from Srisailam project were scaled down to about 60,000 cusecs. Water level of the reservoir also reached 570.6 feet against full level of 590 feet.
According to the flood monitoring officials, spillway discharges from Srisailam were stopped around 6 p.m. on Thursday by closing the one radial crest gate that was open till then.
The maximum spillway discharge of the season at Srisailam was recorded as 2,21,296 cusecs at 1 p.m. on October 17 when eight crest gates of the project were lifted for 10 feet height each and the discharge continued for about four hours.
However, drop in the flood being received into Srisailam made the project authorities to gradually shut the crest gates till the last one closed shut around 6 p.m. on October 19.
Dropping inflows
Inflows into Srisailam were recorded at 49,500 cusecs at 9 p.m. on Friday with 45,000 cusecs coming from Jurala and the rest supplemented by flow from Tungabhadra.
The spillway gates of Jurala, which were opened on October 10 morning, were closed at 3.30 a.m. on Friday as the inflows into the reservoir fell to 47,000 cusecs. Maximum spillway discharge of the season at Jurala was recorded as about 1.9 lakh cusecs at 8 p.m. on October 16.
Meanwhile, the inflows into Singur and Sriramsagar reservoirs in the Godavari basin also dopped to marginal quantity of just over 2,000 cusecs on Friday evening with the water storage in the two projects standing at 29.55 TMC ft and 54.96 TMC ft, respectively, as against their capacities of 29.91 TMC ft and 90.31 TMC ft. With the help of marginal releases from Singur, the storage in Nizamsagar reached 12.4 TMC ft as against it capacity of 17.8 TMC ft. However, no inflows were recorded into LMD and Kaddam projects.