Srisailam Dam Spillovers due to "Wave Effect"

Srisailam Dam is full again and the water stage on Tuesday morning was 884.Eight toes on the dam gates against Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of 885 toes, which resulted in a bit spillover on the gates because of the ‘wave effect’ generally visible in such reservoirs. Such spillover become taken severely by way of a few onlookers and rumours started floating on social media that engineers had now not properly attended to the law of water glide.

 Dam Superintending Engineer M. Srinivasulu Reddy, he stated there has been nothing to be concerned about and it became a herbal phenomenon. The inflow too is regular at 3.5 lakh cusecs, even as the dam became designed for 13 lakh cusecs and it had withstood the 25 lakh cusecs influx in September 2009. Hence, there has been no reason to panic.

“We had been liberating 2.Five lakh cusecs from the



spillway inside the morning, but multiplied it to a few.Five lakh cusecs by way of lifting six gates to 23 ft top to convey the water degree down to 884.5 ft or 884 feet so that inspite of the wave impact, water does now not spill over the gates, although there has been no hazard in it,” said Mr. Reddy.

It was the government’s opinion/directive to keep as a great deal as feasible at some stage in floods. During the closing spell, the inflows had stopped at 881 ft level and increased most effective after the current inflows due to rain due to taking flight monsoon.

Currently, 50,000 cusecs of water had been being released from the left and right foremost canals additionally. At Nagarjunasagar Dam also, against the FRL of 590.6 toes, it turned into brimming at 590 toes and water was being let loose into the sea as there have been inflows from the Jurala also.