The storage of water in major reservoirs of the Krishna Basin till Srisailam is swelling steadily, thanks to widespread rains in the catchment areas in upstream Karnataka and Maharashtra with that in Srisailam and Tungabhadra reservoirs, which serve the Telugu States, crossing the half-way mark.

As of 8 pm on Tuesday, the water storage in Srisailam had crossed 110 tmc ft against its full capacity of 215.8 tmc ft. At Tungabhadra, the water level storage is 55 tmc ft against its capacity of 105.8 tmc ft. Maharashtra’s Ujjani project across Bhima, a tributary of Krishna and Almatti and Narayanpur across Krishna, in Karnataka have already become surplus.

According to a flood forecast bulletin of the meteorological department, Ujjani, Almatti and Narayanpur reservoirs are expected to get significant flood at least till August 15. Three other major reservoirs in the Krishna Basin in Karnataka — Bhadra, Ghataprabha and Malaprabha — are also approaching the surplus level steadily.

Officials of the Irrigation Department stated that flood released from Ujjani, Almatti and Narayanpur dams in the upstream would directly supplement water to Jurala-Srisailam and that of Ghataprabha would join Krishna before Almatti, Malaprabha between Almatti and Narayanpur and Bhadra-Tungabhadra directly into Srisailam.

As of 8 pm, Jurala was getting inflow of about 2.5 lakh cusecs. Over 2.45 lakh cusecs of it is being released to Srisailam from 33 spillway gates and after hydel generation in Jurala and Lower Jurala generating stations. Tungabhadra was getting a flood of 1.03 lakh cusecs.

Meanwhile, in the Godavari Basin, Nizamsagar, Sriramsagar, Kaddam and Yellampalli projects were getting moderate flood. However, the position of medium irrigation projects and minor irrigation tanks is not much encouraging with lack of heavy rains within the State.

Published - August 04, 2026 09:18 pm IST