Overview

• Fourteen crest gates lifted to five-foot heights around 12:30 pm triggered a staggered discharge that climbed from roughly 110,000 cusecs to over 204,000 cusecs by 3 pm as inflows peaked near 256,000 cusecs.
• Nagarjunasagar reservoir stands at 587.20 ft against a full level of 590 ft with storage reaching about 305.62 TMC of its 312.04 TMC capacity.
• Srisailam dam raised ten-foot gates at a reservoir level of 883 ft, discharging about 163,000 cusecs into Nagarjunasagar and maintaining 204.78 TMC of storage.
• Releases support irrigation of 22.12 lakh acres across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and power generation from nine hydro units totaling 760 MW.
• Authorities alerted low-lying communities ahead of the releases and supervised operations to manage flood risks along the Krishna River.