With the heavy inflows of water following the copious rain in the recent day, the Jurala Indira Priyadarshini project in Mehbubnagar district was about to fill to the capacity and authorities have opened the flood gates of the project.
Against the total capacity of 11.9 tmcft, the water-level on Friday touched a high of 10.55 tmcft. The project was getting inflows of 11,465 cusecs and the authorities were discharging 13,965 cusecs water.
The project has also started hydel power generation from Friday. The water was being released from both the right and the left canals as well as Nettampadu and Koel Sagar projects. With the Jurala project, the first on river Krishna in Telangana, filling up there were hopes of more water reaching the Srisailam project in Kurnool where the water had touched an all time low till a couple of weeks ago due to the failure of monsoon.
Situation was improving in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with the heavy rain continuing in different parts under the influence of depression over Vidarbha. Sarangapur in Karimnagar recorded the highest rainfall of 250 mm over the last 24 hours. Adilabad and Nizamabad in Telangana also received heavy rains over the last 24 hours.
In Andhra heavy rains lashed north coastal districts as well as parts of Krishna districts on Friday. The farmers in Nuzvidu in Krishna district who were reeling under the failure of monsoon so far were celebrating the heavy rains. They were in the throes of a major crisis as the water-level had dipped in Prakasham barrage with little hope of officials releasing water. But now the situation had changed significantly.
Meteorological Center has warned more heavy rains over Telangana over the next 48 hours as the depression over Vidarbha was continuing.
One more low pressure area was emerging in Bay of Bengal and Andaman sea which will lead to more rains over coastal Andhr and Telangana over the next four days, the Meteorological Center in Hyderabad said. The persistent rains over the last two weeks has improve the situation in coastal Andhra and Rayalseema regions bringing the rainfall to near normal levels, officials said.