Meet the criterion of 100 feet Salem: water level exist mettur dam Saturday 9.15am. The benchmark reached for the 71st time since it was inaugurated in 1934. The dam is chock-a-block It’s 120 feet.
The capacity of water storage for this dam is about sixty four and half TMCs (thousand cubic feets), whereas the total water storage capacity measures ninety three point four seven TMCFs.
In Karnataka, Kabini and Krishnarajasagar dams have been filled to their maximum levels and hence all inflows are discharging into India cauveri.
This led to flooding of Cauvery river, which continued to increase its flow towards Mettur dam.
Water resources department officials said “The water entering the Mettur dam increased at the rate of 93,828 cusecs per second (cfs) this morning.”
Mettur has provided a total of 1,000 drinking water sources.
