Leader minister Siddaramaiah on monday offered the traditional "bagina" (providing to the river) to Cauvery river on the Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) dam in Srirangapatna taluk of Mandya district, following a surge in inflow that crammed the 84-12 months-vintage reservoir to its complete ability of 124.8 feet in june - a primary considering the fact that its creation.
In step with officials from Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Ltd (CNNL), that is the earliest the dam has ever reached full reservoir level on account that 1958, breaking the previous june document set on July 15 that 12 months. The closing time the dam reached potential this early turned into on July 13, 1973. "From 1958, the extent reached its top of the line stage 12 times in July; 15 times in August; four instances in September; six times in october and as soon as in November," they said.
Siddaramaiah changed into joined by using deputy leader minister DK Shivakumar, Mandya district in-rate minister N Chaluvarayaswamy and social welfare minister HC Mahadevappa at the Bagina ritual.
In step with CNNL, the KRS dam noticed a sharp increase in water level from 103.70 feet on june 1 - rapidly after the monsoon began on may also 28 - to the overall 124.8 ft via june 29. Among june 1 and 29, dams within the Cauvery basin received 73.4 TMC of influx and launched forty one.three TMC. As of june 28, all reservoirs inside the basin held 89% in their general capacity (one hundred and one.fifty two TMC out of 114.57 TMC), as compared to simply 45.02 TMC during the equal length closing 12 months, it said.
It further stated that the dam remained full for 172 days in the preceding water 12 months (June 2024 to may 2025), the longest length in 25 years, from July 21, 2024, to january 12, 2025. The KRS failed to attain full ability in nine years given that 2016, such as as these days as 2023.
This year's early monsoon and steady rainfall in both the Cauvery basin and neighbouring kerala have led to heavy inflows across the area. On Saturday, the KRS acquired 73,811 cusecs, and 52,829 cusecs on Friday. Outflows have been managed to maintain water tiers in advance of the ritual.
Following the KRS event, Siddaramaiah will likely offer bagina on the Kabini reservoir in HD Kote, Mysuru district, quickly. Kabini is currently at 692.63 ft, just shy of its complete degree of 694.seventy four ft. Reservoirs across karnataka have seen above-common storage this 12 months. The almatti dam on the krishna river, as an example, was receiving an inflow of 110,000 cusecs as of this week, with a current storage of eighty five.19 TMC against a complete potential of 123.08 TMC. Water ranges are predicted to rise in addition with endured rain in Krishna's catchment in Maharashtra.
While southern and coastal karnataka received heavy rains in recent weeks, districts like Bengaluru urban maintain to report rainfall deficits.
However, weather forecasts advocate a short lull in rain over the approaching week after two weeks of severe showers.
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