Heavy flooding in Krishna basin projects in the state continues unabated, while it is receding in the Godavari basin, with the flood in Medigadda at 6.36 lakh cusecs and the level at a little over 95 meters at 9 pm on Sunday. ,
The flood level in Bhadrachalam has dropped below the second warning level of 48 metres. However, the Central Water Commission (CWC) has predicted that the flood situation in Godavari in Bhadrachalam will remain above normal level on Monday and at severe level for the next four days.
Upstream of Medigadda, the flood discharge was only about 20,500 cusecs, but it is likely to increase somewhat due to re-spillway discharge at Sriramsagar. At 9.15 pm, the spillway discharge from the 8 crest gates was increased to 16,700 cusecs, with the authorities maintaining a storage of 80/90.3 tmcft. After stopping it at around 11.30 am on Saturday, the spillway discharge was resumed at around 7 pm.
A CWC advisory said that the IMD had predicted a rise in water level in Godavari basin in Adilabad, Bhadradri-Kothagudem, Jagitiyal, Jaishankar-Bhupalpally, Kumram Bheem-Asifabad, Karimnagar, Mancherial, Mulugu, Hanamakonda and Khammam districts . Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. It has predicted that the current spell of rains is expected to cause another wave of floods.
In Krishna basin, heavy flooding continues in Almatti (2.25 lakh cusecs), Narayanpur (2.14 lakh cusecs), Tungabhadra (1.07 lakh cusecs), Ujjani (59,000 cusecs). As a result, there was heavy flooding of 2.77 lakh cusecs in Jurala, 3.89 lakh cusecs in Srisailam, 3.30 lakh cusecs in Nagarjunasagar, with excess water being discharged from the 38, 10 and 26 spillway gates.
Downstream, over 3.53 lakh cusecs were being flooded at Pulichintala, which helped the authorities to discharge the heavy floods towards Prakasam barrage. So far this year, 142 tmcft of surplus water from Prakasam barrage has already been released to sea, while it is 3,145 tmcft of Godavari water from dowlaiswaram barrage.