With a drastic dip in inflows to Priyadharshini Jurala Project (PJP) in Krishna basin in Mahbubnagar district, Irrigation department officials on Saturday closed all the gates.
Singur Project, presently holding 20.5 tmcft of water against its gross capacity of 29.91 tmcft, has been witnessing large number of tourists from Hyderabad and various places
According to Telangana State Planning Development Society, the average rainfall in the State during the last 24 hours was 10.4 mm against the normal rainfall of 5.0 mm.
A tributary of Godavari in Sangareddy district received heavy rainfall, the project ,which has storage capacity of 746MCft, was overflowing from early morning on Sunday.
The water level in the project reached 589.60 feet as against Full Reservoir Level of 590 feet. The present storage of water in the project is 312.04 TMCs as against gross storage capacity of 310.84 TMCs.