Heavy rain has Musi river full

Heavy rain in Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh over the last few days has resulted in irrigation dams getting significant inflows. This will help not only in storage but also to augment supplies for both drinking and irrigation purposes.

Due to heavy rains in Hyderabad and Nalgonda, the Musi river is in spate and the Musi dam near Kethepally in Nalgonda is almost full.

Further surplus of the river will flow to the Pulichintala Dam.

Due to rains in the upstream of the Sriramsagar project, 22,000 cusecs of water is reaching the dam. Thanks to last month’s rains, the dam had reached a storage of 50 TMC ft against a full capacity of 90 TMC ft. But the level dropped to the current 36 TMC ft due to release of water into various canals.

With fresh inflows, chances of building up further storage has increased, which will be useful for raising irrigated dry crops along the command area.

Similarly, local rains have helped Manjeera river to spate for the last two days. On Friday the Singur dam in Medak received 20,000 cusecs. The level rose from 5.9 TMC ft to 9.3 TMC ft by Friday evening.

The government is yet to take a decision on whether to release water for Singur canals, Ghanpur ayacut or to the Nizamsagar dam in Nizamabad.

Irrigation minister T. Harish Rao had earlier instructed officials not to release waters for Hyderabad’s drinking water requirements as the capital city was getting water through the NS and Yellampally dams. He had asked them to fulfill the local needs of the district instead.