Karimnagar: Jagtial-Dharmapuri road closed after inundation

Continuous rainfall over the last four days has caused all water bodies to overflow, resulting in water cascading from the top of the dam near Anantharam.

Karimnagar: Road connectivity between Jagtial-Dharmapuri has been disrupted after water from a dam near Anantharam village inundated the road.

Since all the water bodies are overflowing due to continuous rainfall during the last four days, water is overflowing flowing from the top of the dam near Anantharam.

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Police and revenue officials closed the road on Saturday morning by placing barricades to avert any untoward incidents.

Low-lying areas in Vemulawada urban and rural mandals were inundated in flood water. Road connectivity to nearby villages and other areas was disrupted as tanks and rivulets were overflowing.

The Sripada Yellampalli project was receiving huge inflows following the release of water from Kadem project as well as heavy rains in its catchment areas.

While the project is getting 2.27 lakh cusecs inflow, 2.53 lakh cusecs is being discharged by lifting 25 flood gates. 18.2305 tmc of water is available in the project as against its storage capacity of 20.175 tmc.

Very heavy rainfall was recorded in Raikal of Jagtial district and Arnakonda, Choppadandi mandal of Karimnagar district up to 8.30 am on Saturday. While Raikal received 180.4 mm, Arnakonda got 123.3 mm.

Meanwhile, heavy rainfall was recorded in Allupur of Raikal mandal with 105.5mm, Polasa of Jagtial rural mandal at 104.2mm and Gundi of Ramadugu mandal 92.8mm.