Telangana: Good inflows into reservoirs cheer farmers
Major irrigation projects on Krishna river are receiving good inflows much earlier than last year
Hyderabad: With good rains in the upstream catchment areas due to early onset of southwest monsoon, major irrigation projects on Krishna river are receiving good inflows much earlier than last year. As a result, the Jurala and Srisailam reservoirs are receiving inflows of 25,344 cusecs and 21,146 cusecs respectively enabling the farmers to take up crop sowing without much difficulty.
The Jurala project is receiving heavy inflows of 25,344 cusecs due to heavy rains in neighbouring Karnataka and discharging about 15,477 cusecs as on Monday. Currently, the water level is 1,041.24 feet against full reservoir capacity of 1,045 feet. About 7.41 tmc water is available in the project against its gross storage capacity of 9.65 tmc.
With good inflows into Sunkesula reservoir in Kurnool of neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Jurala project in Mahbubnagar district, the officials of both reservoirs released water downstream a couple of days ago. As a result, the Srisailam reservoir has been receiving 21,146 cusecs of water from both Tungabhadra and Krishna rivers. With these inflows, water level at Srisailam reservoir is steadily increasing. As on Monday, the water level in Srisailam was 821.3 feet as against its full reservoir level of 885 feet. Around 41.76 tmc of water is available against the total capacity of 215.8 TMC in the dam.
In Godavari Basin, the irrigation projects of Kaddam, Lower Manair Dam, Singur. Sripada Yellampally and Sri Ram Sagar also started receiving good inflows. Officials said with more rains expected over the next couple of weeks, all these projects will be brimming to their full capacity. “Normally, monsoon arrives in the second week of June, but it has arrived in the first week itself and resulted in moderate rains. Thus, several projects are receiving inflows earlier than expected,” an Irrigation Department official explained.
According to the officials, Telangana has received an actual cumulative rainfall of 147.9 mm in the current monsoon season in excess of about 39 per cent when compared to normal rainfall of 106 mm as on Saturday. This is also marginally higher than the previous year’s actual cumulative rainfall of 144.2 mm for 2020-21. Of the total 594 mandals in the State, 317 mandals received excess rainfall of more than 20 per cent. Similarly, 160 mandals received normal rainfall, 95 mandals received deficit rainfall and 22 mandals received no rainfall in the State.
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