KRS creates history as reservoir stays full for 156 days: Minister

For the first time in the history of Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) dam, whose construction was completed in 1931, the water level in the reservoir was hovering around 124.80 ft which is maximum level, for 156 days.

For the first time in the history of Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) dam, whose construction was completed in 1931, the water level in the reservoir was hovering around 124.80 ft which is maximum level, for 156 days.

This was stated by Mandya district in-charge Minister N. Cheluvarayaswamy after chairing the KRS Irrigation Consultative Committee meeting in Tuesday.

The Minister said water was being discharged to the canals continuously since the last six months while the discharge to the lower riparian State of Tamil Nadu was more than what has been stipulated by the court.

Though the water level on January 7 was 124.30 ft against the full level of 124.80 ft, Mr. Cheluvarayaswamy said the decline was only marginal.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC) has indicated that the water level on the same day last year was 96.58 ft. The quantum of water in the reservoir as on January 7 was 48.75 tmcft against the gross storage capacity of 49.45 tmcft. The storage on the same day last year was 20.25 tmcft. The gross storage capacity of the four major reservoirs – KRS, Hemavathi, Kabini, Harangi – in the Cauvery basin in the State is 114.57 tmcft against which the cumulative storage as on January 7 is 91.87 tmcft. The cumulative storage in the four dams on the same day last year was 51.89 tmcft.