Overview

• Reservoir storage reached 295.7 TMC ft, with the water level at 584.40 ft—just six feet below the full tank level of 590 ft as of Monday afternoon.
• Officials opened crest gates at 10 AM on July 28 to discharge roughly 50,000 cusecs of surplus water downstream.
• The project recorded inflows of 147,195 cusecs and managed outflows totaling 38,762 cusecs through its canal network.
• Dam authorities issued flood warnings for low-lying communities and deployed pump sets after previous inundation at the Sri Lakshminarsimha Swamy temple.
• Telangana’s irrigation minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, roads and buildings minister Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and Nalgonda in-charge minister Adluri Laxman attended the gate-opening to oversee safety measures.