Tungabhadra Dam Gate Washed Away: Srisailam, Nagarjuna Sagar Officials on Alert
Tungabhadra Dam Gate | Hyderabad, Aug 11 (Maxim News): A flood alert has been sounded in the downstream pockets of the Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka as one of its 33 gates snapped in the impact of a heavy flood late on Saturday.
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The 19th gate of the dam, which had complaints of malfunctioning attended as part of the pre-monsoon exercise in May last, was washed away when the dam was discharging a sudden spurt in flood flow.
About one lakh cusecs of water were being released from the dam, with 105 tmc of water as part of its current storage. Its gross storage capacity is also 105 tmc.
About 60 tmc of water had to be let off to take up the immediate replacement of the gate.
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Authorities of the Srisailam project and Nagarjuna Sagar dam have also been put on alert given the incident and they are monitoring the outflows from Tungabhadra. (Maxim News)
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