Vijayawada: The Krishna district officials declared the second flood warning on the heavy flood water inflow into Prakasham Barrage. The heavy floods from Krishna River receiving 7.63 lakhs cusecs and the officials continue to discharge 7.3 cusecs of flood water downstream at 8 pm on Thursday.

According to the CWC, the trend of inflows into major reservoirs in Krishna basin is expected to be on the rise for two more days. “Due to ongoing rainfall in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and North Interior Karnataka, river Krishna and its tributaries are rising. Inflows into major dams are showing an increasing trend,” CWC’s flood advisory stated.

Since rainfall is expected to continue in upstream areas of Krishna and Bhima for next two days, and as all the dams in Krishna, Bhima and Tungabhadra sub-basins in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are very near to FRL, caution is advised, it added.

Though the inflow into Prakasham Barrage marginally declined, compared to Wednesday, it remained over 7.2 lakh cusecs with Pulichintala project’s outflow rising to 5.1 lakh cusecs. At 8 pm, Pulichintala recorded an inflow of 4.81 lakh cusecs and it has 42.42 TMC of water against its full reservoir level of 45.77 TMC. Srisailam dam recorded an inflow of 5.3 lakh cusecs. Nagarjuna Sagar recorded an inflow of 4 to 4.5 lakh cusecs and is discharging most of it to Pulichintala project.

The first flood warning continued at Gotta barrage on Vamsadhara. At 3 pm, the inflow was recorded to be 41,000 cusecs and the outflow 43,000 cusecs. The flood to Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage in Dowleswaram remained steady with an inflow of 2.29 lakh cusecs and an outflow of 2.31 lakh cusecs.