Hyderabad: Due to the heavy rainfalls the water has been flowing into Himayat Sagar and four gates of the reservoir are opened on Tuesday night after it touched its full reservoir level (FRL) OF 1763.500 around 12:30 pm to let the water out from Himayathsagar into Musi river that had filled to the brim due to incessant rainfall experienced in the last few days in its catchment areas.
Around 9 pm, heavy thundershowers lashing the city, set the tone for opening up of the Himayathsagar gates.
The Himayat Sagar had been filling up consistently during last few days and there was high anticipation in the city about the opening of the sluice gates of Himayathsagar, an occasion for Hyderabadi’s to celebrate.
The water level is increasing by over 11,000 cusecs, and this is the first time in ten years that the gates are opened.
Last was in 2010 that the gates were opened.
The reservoir was again flooded by 16666 cusecs due to heavy rainfall in the Himayat Sagar reservoir catchment area. Himayathsagar reservoir water level has reached 1762.867 feet. Gates were raised 2 feet and 1375 cusecs of water will be released into Musi.
Depending on the inflow of water into the reservoir more gates will be lifted along with these two gates out of a total of 17 gates.
At present, the total inflow is 16666 cusecs. The total water storage capacity of Himayathsagar is 2.97 TMC. The current water storage is 2.766 TMC. The total water level is 1763.5 feet. The current water level is 1763.867 feet.
The Municipal Administration GHMC directed the Police Officers to be vigilant. As the reservoir’s 2 gates have been raised and water was released downstream, Water Board Managing Director Dana Kishore along with the concerned authorities, Hyderabad and Rangareddy.
By Journalist Natalia Moses
A18TELANGANANEWS
