High alert as Srisailam, Jurala to see heavy inflows

HYDERABAD: Two major projects on Krishna river basin — Jurala and Srisailam — are likely to get heavy inflows from upstream Alamatti and Narayanpur dams in the next few days. The irrigation department on Wednesday sounded a high alert and asked engineers of respective projects to take measures.
Irrigation officials said the Central Water Commission (CWC) has issued a warning to Maharashtra, Gujarat and Karnataka saying Mahabaleshwar, Koyana dam and other catchments areas have been receiving heavy rainfall and some dams have reached full reservoir levels and water is released from the projects.
As a result of heavy inflows in Krishna river, apart from various dams in Karnataka, Alamatti is expected to get huge inflows in the coming days. The CWC said: “The increase in inflows are expectedly rise rapidly from August 6. Since Narayanpur dam, downstream of Almatti, is nearly full reservoir level, necessary pre-depletion plan can be done from Narayanpur.”
Telangana government said if water is released as part of depletion from Narayanpur, both Jurala and Srisailam will get heavy inflows.