With the sudden torrential rain in recent days, the Gangrel dam water once again reached above danger level. The capacity of the dam, spread in 9,540 hectares, is 32.150 TMC, but with the continuous inflow, 32.250 TMC water was filled in the dam till Wednesday evening.
looking to the more than the capacity water inflow, the district administration sounded alert in the villages situated on the banks of the river and at 6 pm opened six radial gates of the dam. 10808 cusecs water has been released from the dam.
During the rainy season, water had been discharged before it reached the danger level. Torrential rain in the catchment areas of the dam has been reported on Tuesday and Wednesday, because of which the water level has been increased suddenly. According to the information received from control room, inflow of water in the dam was 13049 cusecs and it releases 10808 cusecs through its six radial gates.