The flood level in the river crossed the danger mark of 51 feet at the temple town of Bhadrachalam on Tuesday. In case of further rise in the river flow, the threat of huge submergence looms large.
The water level reached 43.60 feet at 8 pm with a discharge of 9, 60, 541 cusecs and forecast indicates further rise in the water level, said district Collector Jithesh V Patil.
The water level in river Godavari at Bhadrachalam in Kothagudem has been increasing steadily and reached 35.10 feet at 5 pm with a discharge of 5,96,805 cusecs of floodwater on Saturday.
He stated that the Medigadda barrage, which was written off by the Congress government, had disproved all the allegations against it by standing resolute and rocksolid surviving the flood once again
Three of the major projects- Medigadda, Sammakka Sagar and Seetarama Sagar on Godavari have been receiving heavy inflows and they are likely to rise further as heavy rains were forecast in north Telangana districts for the next two days.
The project gates are to be opened on July 1 every year and kept open till October 28 to ensure monsoon inflows reach the Sriram Sagar Project, a major irrigation project, some 80 km downstream.
The bridge was opened during this year’s Sri Rama Navami as large numbers of devotees were expected to attend the celebrations at Sri Seetha Ramachandra Swamy Devasthanam here.
The Congress government had sanctioned Rs 72 crore to complete the nine km long Enkur link canal to connect Sitarama project with Nagarjuna Sagar project left canal.
In a recent letter to the temple EO L Rama Devi, the gram panchayat (GP) secretary Ch Srinivas Rao stated that the GP is not able to maintain cleanliness in the Mada streets and the Devasthanam officials have to make their own arrangements for garbage collection.
The Southwest monsoon has also advanced up to South Bay of Bengal. If the inflows into the KLIP barrages are heavy, there will be no scope to carry any sort of works this year.
