SRIKAKULAM: The flood water in Vamsadhara and Nagavali rivers, which were in spate, began receding on Tuesday.
Project superintendent engineer Tirumula Rao said, the outflows from the Thotapalli Barrage on Nagavali river which was around 1 lakh cusecs on Monday, came down to 8,000 cusecs on Tuesday afternoon. Rao added that with the rains in the upper catchment areas in Odisha decreasing, the inflows also come down to 7,000 cusecs.
“Now, we are trying to enhance the storage of the reservoir,” Rao said.
In Vamsadhara river, the crest gates of Gotta Barrage remained lifted. Officials said that the outflows increased to 41,000 cusecs on Tuesday morning when compared to the 20,000 cusecs on Monday.
The total rainfall registered in the upper catchments areas of Vamsadhara so far has been put at 256.6 mm.
Meanwhile, the crop fields remained inundated in the low-lying areas and residents of Dabbapadu village said that more fields would be submerged, if the water did not recede by Tuesday night.
“As many as 500 acres of paddy fields have been inundated in three mandals,” said agriculture department joint director Rama Rao, after visiting the flood-hit areas in Palakonda, Veeraghattam and Santakaviti mandal.
Meanwhile, heavy rains triggered by the low pressure over the Bay of Bengal is lashing the district. Many residential areas remained inundated. With water entering into the RTC Complex in Srikakulam, the officials as well as the passengers faced troubles on Tuesday.
Low pressure develops into depression
Meanwhile, weathermen said that the low-pressure area formed over the northwest Bay of Bengal, coastal Odisha and northern Andhra Pradesh developed into a depression on Tuesday morning.
The depression is centered around 120 km east-southeast off Gopalpur and 80 km south-southeast off Puri coast in Odisha .“It is very likely to cross Odisha coast between Gopalpur and Puri by Tuesday night,” IMD officials said.
The weather system triggered heavy rains occurred at isolated places in northern coastal Andhra districts on Tuesday.