The rain gods appear to be kind enough with the ‘better late than never’ approach for Telangana as the water level/storage in most of the major reservoirs in the Krishna and Godavari basins in the State is building up steadily, thanks to the flood from the upstream and also rains in the local catchment areas.

Reservoirs such as Jurala, Srisailam, Nizamsagar, Sriramsagar, Yellampally, Kaddam and others which were having water storage below their dead storage level or slightly above it and longing for the first flood of the season till recently, have started getting flood. Under Jurala, all canal systems and lift schemes have been switched on to fill the linked tanks.

In the Godavari Basin, 5 pumps each at Nandi Medaram (Nandi) and Laximpalli (Gayathri) pumphouses of the Kaleshwaram project are being run for the last couple of days, drawing 15,750 cusecs of flood water from Yellampally reservoir to fill Mid Manair reservoir. In turn, Mid Manair is getting 17,500 cusecs along with flood supplementation by local streams. At 5.30 p.m. on Friday, the reservoir has 10.61 tmc ft of water against its capacity of 27.5 tmc ft.

According to the inflow forecast issued based on various models of flood forecast, including the one issued by the Meteorological department, flood to Alamatti and Narayanpur dams in Karnataka is likely to range in the measure of 50,000 cusecs till August 11 and most of it is likely to be discharged downstream towards Jurala.

Similarly, in the Godavari Basin flood to Singur (12,000 cusecs), Sriramsagar (80,000 cusecs) and Yellampally (25,000 cusecs) reservoir is forecast to continue at least till August 6.

Of the 38 medium irrigation reservoirs in the two basins, Chelimalavagu (NTR Sagar), P.P. Rao Project, Gollavagu, Nilwai Project, Ralivagu, Gundlavagu and Taliperu in the Godavari Basin and Wyra in Krishna Basin have become surplus so far. Of the 21,500 minor irrigation tanks under the Irrigation department, the present water storage is 63 tmc ft out of their total capacity of 254 tmc ft.

Meanwhile, the second flood warning was issued at Bhadrachalam on Friday evening as the water level in the Godavari river crossed 48-feet mark with flow estimated at 12.89 lakh cusecs. The first warning was issued in the morning when the level crossed 43 feet.

Published - July 31, 2026 09:05 pm IST