Hyderabad: The Srisailam project has continued to receive heavy inflows, pushing the authorities to open gates, and releasing water to the Nagarjuna Sagar project.

Because of heavy rains in Karnataka, the Srisailam has been receiving heavy inflows for the previous one week with water being collected at the rate of 3.48 lakh cusecs on Wednesday.

Because of heavy inflows from Jurala project and the catchment areas in the rain-hit areas around the project on river Krishna, water levels in Srisialam reservoir was reported at 881 feet off the FRL (Full Reservoir Level) of 885 feet this evening.

“All the reservoirs in the upstream including Almatti, Jurala and Tungabhadra are filled to their full capacity. As they too have been receiving heavy rainfall in their upper catchment areas, water is being discharging downstream,” the officials said.

While about 3.13 lakh cusecs are being released from the Jurala project, another 53,000 cusecs are being released from the Sunkesula project.

However, about 3.48 lakh cusecs are being received in the Srisailam project due to seepages and vaporization losses.

Officials said that the discharged water from Srisailam will help to increase the water levels in Nagarjuna Sagar project fast and the project is expected to get water level at the FRL of 590 feet in two or three days. The present water level in Sagar is 571 feet.