Overview
- Polavaram district officials opened at least 135 relief camps on Saturday and mounted inspections in V.R. Puram and Kunavaram as water at the Chintoor bridge reached 43.5 feet.
- Teams have shifted at least 10 pregnant women to hospitals and advised about 101 more in the Chintoor agency to be ready for evacuation.
- Authorities have suspended tourism and boating on the Godavari, readied rescue boats at Kunavaram, and restricted access to waterfalls and other visitor sites for public safety.
- Officials warned that inflows from heavy rains in Chhattisgarh and Odisha could rise sharply and said forecasts reported a possible surge toward 10 lakh cusecs at Chintoor, a discharge figure that would threaten about 161 villages if it materializes.
- A cusec measures river flow in cubic feet per second, and the district is using past submergence patterns from the 2022 Godavari floods to target evacuations and plan resettlement talks with displaced Polavaram project families scheduled next Monday.