Chennai to get Krishna water every day
Posted on: 19/Dec/2013 10:01:19 AM
The Public Works Department has mentioned that the city is likely to get 1,000 cusecs of Krishna water each day from Kandaleru reservoir by the end of this month with the linking of old canal with new structure.The main repair work on the damaged portion of the Kandaleru Poondi canal at Ubbalamadugu in Andhra Pradesh has been completed.
This also comes in the wake of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa asking the officials to pursue with Andhra Pradesh, the issue of release of Tamil Nadu’s quota of Krishna water. Currently, the city is getting only 140 cusecs of water. Meanwhile, heavy rains during the last couple of days have failed to bring in much needed cheer for Metro Water officials who are keeping their fingers crossed as the catchment areas of the city reservoirs got only 32 million cubic feet.
As per figures available with Metro Water, Poondi has 724 million cubic feet, Cholavaram 173 million cubic feet, Red Hills 1,899 million cubic feet, Chembarambakkam 975 million cubic feet and Veeranam 1,051 million cubic feet. Poondi reservoir had an inflow of 81 cusecs of Krishna Water besides an addition of 119 cusecs of rain water. Similarly, Chembarambakkam got 328 cusecs of rain water while Red Hills had an inflow of 23 cusecs of water. The highest inflow of water during the rains was to Veeranam which recorded an addition of 900 cusecs.
