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All large rivers successful Vizianagaram and Srikakulam districts person been connected a spate connected Saturday (October 4, 2025) besides though the districts had witnessed small rainfall since Friday (October 3, 2025).
With the continuous dense inflows from catchment areas of Odisha, the rivers specified arsenic Nagavali, Vamsadhara, Mahendra Tanaya and others caused floods successful some North Andhra districts successful the past fewer days.
The beingness of the radical surviving successful Vangara, Santhakaviti, Regidi Amadalavalasa, Gajapathinagaram and different places of Vizianagaram territory turned miserable nether the interaction of floods. With the merchandise of h2o from Thotapalli and Madduvalasa reservoir, the flood h2o entered respective villages and paddy fields of Rajam Assembly constituency of the district.
More than 40,000 cusecs of h2o has been released from those reservoirs aft alerting radical surviving successful debased lying areas. The territory received 1068 mm rainfall connected Friday arsenic against the mean rainfall of 291.1 connected the peculiar day.
Andhra Pradesh: Heavy flood travel in Krishna and Godavari Rivers, alerts issued
Vizianagaram Collector S. Ramsundar Reddy visited the flood affected areas and hoped that the normalcy would instrumentality successful a mates of days with respite from dense downpour. He directed officials of Revenue, Agriculture, APEPDCL, R and B different Departments to instrumentality urgent measures to minimise the interaction of floods.
The Collector informed the Chief Minister’s Office implicit the alleviation measures taken by the authorities to trim the interaction of floods connected nationalist life. People of Srikakulam heaved a suspiration of alleviation with the driblet successful inflows to Vamsadhara river.
Flood menace continues successful Andhra Pradesh arsenic Krishna, Godavari stay swollen
Around 47,325 cusecs of h2o was released from Gotta barrage constructed connected Vamsadhara river. The irrigation officials released astir 1.1 lakh cusecs of h2o from the barrage connected Friday (October 3, 2025).
Srikakulam Collector Swapnil Dinakar said normalcy would beryllium restored precise soon with important autumn successful inflows from the catchment areas. He hoped that h2o would recede rapidly from the inundated areas of Pathapatnam, Narasannapeta, Amadlavalasa and different places.
Srikakulam MLA Gondu Shankar visited flood affected areas and instilled assurance among the radical surviving successful Kalingapatnam, Gara, and agrarian areas of Srikakulam. He suggested that the officials should beryllium connected alert for the adjacent mates of days arsenic a fewer areas would proceed to beryllium nether flood h2o for immoderate much clip successful Srikakulam Assembly constituency.
