Water level of Gangrel dam has been increased by 13 centimeters due to rain in its catchment areas during the last one week. Due to good rainfall, last year water level of the dam had been increased to the full capacity.
According to sources, this year also, as the monsoon has arrived in the area one week ahead, water level in the dams has been increased.
According to water resources department, the incoming of water in Gangrel dam has been increased by 1946 cusecs and due to which the water level has been increased by 13 cms. Moreover, water level of Marumassilli, Sondur and Dudhawa dams has also been started increasing continuously.
According to the a departmental sources, the capacity of Gangrel dam is 148.70 TMT and 10.30 TMC water is needed to fill the dam to its full capacity. The gross capacity of the dam is 7,778 CMC and live capacity is 2.707 TMC. 74 mm rainfall has been recorded in the catchment areas of the dam. So far, 222 mm rainfall was recorded in this month.
Besides, in the catchment area of Marumassilli dam 130 mm rainfall has been recorded. At present 364.25 metre water is available in the dam. The gross capacity of the dam is 0.429 TMC and live capacity is 0.308 TMC. Incoming of 1759 cusecs water in the dam has been recorded so far.
Similarly, inflow of total of 5131 cusec water was recorded in the Dudhawa dam and 12113 cusecs in Sondur dam. According to the department, if rainfall continues these dams will be filled soon.