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The Water Resources Department (WRD) issued some the archetypal and 2nd flood warnings successful 5 hours astatine the Prakasam Barrage successful Vijayawada connected Thursday, pursuing the highly dense rainfall triggered by Cyclone Montha.
Several rivulets and tributaries successful the Krishna Basin overflowed, starring to a accelerated emergence successful inflows from the precocious catchment areas.
According to the officials, dense flood inflows began precocious connected Wednesday night. By Thursday evening, the flood level astatine the Prakasam Barrage reached astir 15 feet supra the crest. The archetypal flood informing was issued astatine 1.45 p.m. erstwhile the inflow crossed 3.97 lakh cusecs, followed by the 2nd informing astatine 6.45 p.m. arsenic the travel surged beyond 5.67 lakh cusecs.
The Pulichintala Project besides recorded inflows exceeding 5 lakh cusecs, prompting the officials to merchandise astir 5.50 lakh cusecs downstream by afloat opening each the crest gates to modulate the pressure.
Krishna Central (KC) Division Executive Engineer and River Conservator Ravi Kiran said each the 69 crest gates of the Prakasam Barrage, but 1 that was nether maintenance, were lifted to fto retired h2o into the sea.
“Currently, implicit 5.67 lakh cusecs of h2o is being discharged. Canal releases person been temporarily stopped to negociate flood levels,” helium said.
The authoritative noted that the surge was caused by flash floods successful the tributaries of the Krishna owed to highly dense rainfall successful the upstream catchment areas. He urged each departments and the wide nationalist to enactment alert and instrumentality information precautions arsenic the inflows were expected to emergence further earlier receding.
