The water discharge from Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir in Mandya district was stepped up on Monday as the outflow from the dam crossed 70,000 cusecs amidst continuous rains in the dam’s catchment area in Kodagu.
With the water-level of the dam touching 122.54 ft. as against the maximum of 124.80 ft., the dam authorities increased the release of water from 48,963 cusecs at 6 a.m. on Monday to 71,002 cusecs at 6 p.m. on Monday. The outflow into the river may go up further with the likelihood of increase in the inflow in view of torrential rain in the dam’s catchment.
The inflow at 6 p.m. on July 11 was 71,147 cusecs. The outflow on this day last year was 1,350 cusecs and the inflow was 1,495 cusecs.
