HYDERABAD: With heavy inflows reaching beyond full tank level (FTL) of the Himayatsagar reservoir (1763.5 feet), officials of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) opened three floodgates at around 4.30pm on Tuesday.
The water level at Himayatsagar touched 1763 feet against the FTL of 1763.5 feet at around 2pm on Tuesday. An emergency meeting was convened then at HMWS&SB main office, Khairatabad, with senior water board officials and it was decided to open the floodgates.
Water board officials had originally planned to open four floodgates, but keeping in view the inflows into the water body, officials revised their plan and decided to open three floodgates only.
“Three out of 17 floodgates were opened to a height of one feet each for releasing excess flood water into Musi river,” said managing director, HMWS&SB, M Dana Kishore in an official release.
“People should not move along Musi as a heavy volume of water is flowing,” Kishore warned.
Officials are assessing the arrival of the inflows at the reservoir in the next few hours, and will decide whether to open a few more floodgates, a senior HMWSSB official told TOI.
