Srisailam certain to surplus by tomorrow

Storage set swell faster with supplementation of flood from Tungabhadra

The prospects of Srisailam dam getting surplus and commencement of flood discharge through the spillway by Wednesday appear certain with the reservoir storage swelling by about 30 tmc ft water during the 24-hour period till 8 p.m. on Monday. With the discharge of flood from Almatti-Narayanpur-Jurala in the measure of over 3 lakh cusecs and the likelihood of flood being discharged at Tungabhadra dam reaching Srisailam from Tuesday afternoon is set to further improve the storage with the rising trend. “Discharge of flood at Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka commenced after Sunday afternoon in a small measure of about 15,000 cusecs and has reached nearly 1.4 lakh cusecs by Monday evening. The flood released at Tungabhadra would usually reach Srisailam in 48 hours by covering a distance of 400 km (river course). Flood from Krishna and Tungabhadra would swell the storage of Srisailam in the measure of expected shall make it surplus by Wednesday,” a flood monitoring engineer at Srisailam dam told The Hindu.