CHENNAI: While the devastation caused by the water released from the Chembarambakkam reservoir is still vivid in the minds of people in Chennai, another reservoir in the city is nearing full capacity. On Thursday, Sathyamurthi reservoir in Poondi had 3,224 million cubic feet (mcft) of water against its total capacity of 3,231 mcft.

Public works department officials said water from the Sathyamurthi reservoir would be diverted to the Cholavaram reservoir, which now has a storage of 598 mcft against a capacity of 881 mcft.

The release of Krishna water from the Kandaleru reservoir in Andhra Pradesh has been stopped over the last few days after PWD officials requested their counterparts the neighbouring state to do so, fearing flooding. The inflow into the reservoirs has been restricted to rainwater from catchment areas to minimise risk of floods.

The storage levels in the other three reservoirs are also near full capacity. While the storage of the Red Hills reservoir stood at 2,705 mcft against its full capacity of 3,300 mcft, the Chembarambakkam reservoir has 2,976 mcft of water against the total capacity of 3,646 mcft.

There has been an increase of more than 1,000 mcft of water in the reservoirs at Poondi, Chembarambakkam and Red Hills since November.



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