Krishna Basin dams in TS, AP get more flood

Upper catchment areas of Krishna receive fresh spell of heavy rain

The prospects of Almatti, Narayanpur, Jurala, Tungabhadra and Srisailam dams getting heavy flood for some more days have increased with a fresh spell of heavy rain in the upper catchment areas of Krishna and some of its major tributaries. Mahabaleshwar recorded about 14.3 cm rain during the 48-hour period till 8.30 a.m. on Saturday, while Agumbe (8.3 cm) and Warana (7 cm) recorded heavy rain during the 24-hour period, according to a bulletin of the Central Water Commission (CWC). Almatti was getting a flood of over 3.86 lakh cusecs and discharging 4.2 lakh cusecs, while it was 4.2 lakh cusecs and 4.15 lakh cusecs at Narayanpur, 39,000 and 59,000 cusecs at Tungabhadra dam and 4.78 lakh cusecs and 4.87 lakh cusecs at Jurala, respectively, at 6 pm.