A Telangana government panel has warned that storing water up to 522 metres in the Singur reservoir could damage the structure. Experts recommended restricting it to 517 metres and called for immediate repairs to prevent a possible breach and downstream disaster
Though the projects Singur and Manjeera reservoirs were built across the rivers upstream of Ghanpur were not filled to the brim, Ghanpur started overflowing due to local inflows.
Medak: Following continuous rains in the river Manjeera’s catchment area, Ghanpur anicut (Vana Durga) Project, started overflowing on Monday. The project, built across river Manjeera near Sri Vana Durga Bhavani Temple in Papannapet Mandal, was having 350MCft storage capacity. It was having 25,000 acres of ayacut under both left and right bank canals. Farmers from […]
Medak: Two persons drowned near Ghanpur anicut at Sri Vana Durga Bhavani Temple Edupayala in Medak district on Tuesday. They were identified as Pittala Jai Hindu (36) and his nephew Pittala Ramu (16) of Dandupally in Manhoarabad Mandal. Jai Hind and Ramu have arrived at the temple on Tuesday morning to offer prayers to the […]
Medak: A 35-year-old devotee from Hyderabad suffered seizures and fell into Ghanpur anicut located close to Sri Vana Durga Bhavani Temple at Edupayala on Friday. Expert divers, who were posted at the anicut for emergencies, responded quickly and brought him out within a few minutes. Ravi, son of Nagaiah from Shapur Nagar near Jeedimetla, however, […]
Since the water flow has receded in the river on Tuesday, the four men - Dumpala Yellam, Sadula Yadagiri, Skylab and Nagaraju - went for fishing on Tuesday night.