Floods in Krishna, Cauvery ease

Bangalore, Aug 14 (UNI) Life in flooded areas in Krishna and Cauvery river basins is slowly limping back to normalcy with considerable decrease in precipitation and marginal drop in inflows into major reservoirs.

The flood levels in Krishna came down marginally while it receded considerably in Cauvery and Bhima rivers.

At Alamatti reservoir across Krishna in Bagalkot district the Inflow was at 2.22 lakh cusecs and the discharge was reduced to 1.87 lakh cusecs. Downstream Narayanpur also saw reduction in inflow was at 2.02 lakh cusecs and out flow at 1.83 lakh cusecs.

The swolen Bhima also showed signs of receding flood levels with inflow dropping to 62,000 cusecs from 79,000 cusecs yesterday.

After a fortnight rain havoc in the Cauvery basin areas the life was fast returning to normalcy as levels Cauvery and its tributaries receded further. Main catchment area of Kodagu district, which received a record rainfall so far this season, saw much less intensity in rainfall since yesterday. School and colleges which were closed for more than a week time were reopened yesterday.

Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir across Cauvery, near Mysore and Kabini dam in the same district and Harangi reservoir in Kodagu district continued to be at the brim but inflows dropped considerably.

The outflow into downstream Tamil Nadu from Cauvery river dropped down to little over 50,000 today.

The road traffic and normal life was returned to normalcy in the Hassan district, which was also battered by South-west monsoon during the past two weeks.

However the relief works continued in most of the affected areas in the state.

UNI