SRSP becomes surplus two months early

Heavy discharge of flood, power generation on at the project

Heavy to very heavy rains in the catchment areas both in Telangana and in upstream Maharashtra has resulted in huge flood to Sriramsagar project in Nizamabad district from the early hours on Thursday allowing the authorities to start discharge of flood through the spillway. “It’s almost two months in advance compared to the commencement of flood discharge through the spillway in 2019 and 2020, when it began on September 21 and September 14, respectively. Release of flood into the river course initially began with power generation around 12.30 p.m. and through the spillway after 1 pm”, engineers at SRSP dam site said. According to Superintending Engineer G. Srinivas and Executive Engineer Chakrapani, inflows into the dam which were around 85,000 cusecs at 9 a.m. and to over 1.44 lakh cusecs an hour later. It went up to 2.88 lakh cusecs by 11 a.m. and to over 4.32 lakh cusecs by noon, when the storage in the reservoir reached 83.25 tmc ft against its capacity of 90.31 tmc ft.