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Red alert sounded in villages on banks of the Krishna

Special Correspondent

All 24 gates of Narayanpur dam opened to release water

GULBARGA: Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigama Ltd. (KBJNL) has sounded a red alert in villages on the banks of the Krishna downstream from the Alamatti and Narayanpur dams asking people to shift to safer places as the release of water from the reservoirs is likely to increase sharply owing to heavy inflow.

Sources in KBJNL told The Hindu here on Thursday that the inflow into the Alamatti dam, which is currently 1.89 lakh cusecs, is likely to increase to 2.33 lakh cusecs. The authorities will have no alternative but to discharge water from the Narayanpur dam as the Alamatti dam is full to the brim.

Sources said the authorities at the Alamatti dam, which is the balancing reservoir for the Narayanpur dam, are letting out the entire quantum of inflow from the dam to the river as the dam cannot impound any more water. The Narayanpur dam is also recording heavy inflow and the water-level in the dam has reached 491.230 metres as against the full level of 492.252 metres.

The inflow into the Narayanpur dam increased sharply to 2.46 lakh cusecs at 6 p.m., Thursday, they said and added that the authorities have opened all the 24 gates to let out water.

The outflow from the dam is 2.36 lakh cusecs, and this is likely to increase as the inflow into the dam continues to be high, they added.

Apart from the release of water from the Narayanpur dam, the authorities have also stepped up the release of water into the Narayanpur right and left bank canals to irrigate the command area of the Upper Krishna Project.

At present, 2,600 cusecs of water is being released into Narayanpur Left Bank Canal and 500 cusecs into the Narayanpur Right Bank Canal.

Sources said the Shahapur Branch Canal breached in the tail-end portion in the 21st distributary two days ago.

Restoration work to plug the breach is in full swing, the sources said and added that the breach has not caused any damage to crops as the farmers had not taken up sowing in the area.

Sources said water has reached this point for the first time after the project was inaugurated.

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