Faced with heavy inflow of water into the Bhakra dam following rains in its catchment areas, the Bhakra Beas Management Board today released about 16,000 cusecs of water by opening its spillway gates into the Sutlej river.
Faced with heavy inflow of water into the Bhakra dam following rains in its catchment areas, the Bhakra Beas Management Board today released about 16,000 cusecs of water by opening its spillway gates into the Sutlej river.
"We have released 15,000 to 16,000 cusecs of water into Sultlej river so as to ease the heavy inflow of water in Bhakra reservoir," BBMB member, irrigation, MK Gupta said.
Asserting that there was no need to panic following the release of the water, Gupta said Sutlej had the capacity to absorb 2.5 lakh cusecs of water.
"We have released very small quantity of water into the river which can be absorbed by the river itself. Therefore, there is no need to panic," he said.
The BBMB had already alerted the concerned authorities about the release of water.
The water level in Bhakra reservoir has reached 1671 feet today against yesterday's level of 1668 feet. "We will not allow the rise in water level more than one feet per day into the Bhakra reservoir after it reaches the 1670 feet mark," he said.
Bhakra reservoir was still getting an inflow of 71,000 cusecs of water, forcing the BBMB to open its spillways to regulate the water.
Asked about further release of water, Gupta said that BBMB would discharge water from Bhakra reservoir whenever the situation warrants.
"We are monitoring the inflow of water on an hourly basis to take stock of the situation. Further release of water will depend upon the water inflow into dam," he said.
Gupta said that even after crossing the level of 1680 feet, which is the design level of Bhakra dam, BBMB can handle the water, though for short time, for flood absorption.
The level of 1680 feet is the stipulated level to which the reservoir can be filled and the capacity between 1680 and 1690 feet is kept reserved for flood absorption.
On August 12, the partnering states including Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan had agreed to allow the water level into dam be raised up to 1670 feet, 10 feet less than the maximum reservoir capacity.
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