Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh govt has written to the Krishna River Control Board (KRMB) to succeed upon the Telangana govt not to withdraw water just for hydel energy era functions from the principle powerhouse of the Nagarjunasagar challenge.

In his letter to the KRMB member-secretary, AP water sources division engineer-in-chief C. Narayana Reddy mentioned that the discharge of water used to be leading to massive inflows into the KL Rao Sagar Pulichintala challenge. The challenge had 40.80 tmc toes (thousand million cubic ft) of water in opposition to complete reservoir capability of 45.77 tmcft.

 

He mentioned that the TS govt had operated the Nagarjunasagar powerhouses intermittently within the early duration of the monsoon final 12 months, which led to repeated operation of spillway radial gates on the Pulichintala challenge. One of the most gates on the challenge had washed approach and had nonetheless no longer been changed.

Persisted unlock of water to the Pulichintala challenge would end result within the reservoir filling up and the AP govt must open the gates to set free extra water. Because the Prakasam barrage downstream additionally had enough water, the surplus water would need to be set free into the ocean.

 

Keeping up that there could be a large number of call for for ingesting water in the summertime, the AP reliable mentioned there used to be a wish to save treasured water within the Nagarjunasagar challenge to satisfy the requirement.

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