Heavy rains across the State for about 10 days have not only made all major projects, except Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar, become surplus both in the Godavari and Krishna Basins, but have also helped almost all medium irrigation projects and over 50% of minor irrigation tanks discharge surplus water.
According to Irrigation Department authorities, 18,490 minor irrigation tanks out of 34,618 tanks, as per information received till July 29, were discharging water from their surplus weirs/spillways and only 3,691 of them have received water up to 25% of their water holding capacity. There are a total of 43,837 minor irrigation tanks in the State.
Of the remaining tanks, about which information was received by the State authorities, 5,758 tanks have received inflows filling them from 75% to 100% of their capacity, 3,192 of them got water in the range of 50% to 75% of their capacity and another 3,487 tanks have been filled from 25% to 50% of their capacity.
