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Sluice gates of Sardar Sarovar dam opened

Sluice gates of Sardar Sarovar dam opened

Vadodara, Aug 9 (UNI) The sluice gates installed on the Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam were opened for the first time on Friday to release water as the level in its reservoir touched a record all-time high of 131.45 meters due to heavy inflow caused by heavy to very heavy rain in the catchment areas of river Narmada.
Due to the discharge of water in river from the reservoir, all the six units of the river bed hydelpower production system have been started after two years. It houses six 200 MW Francis pump-turbines to generate electricity and include a pumped-storage capability. Additionally, a power plant on the intake for the main canal ie canal bed contains five 50 MW Kaplan turbine-generators. The total installed capacity of the power facilities is 1,450 MW.

One of the canals bed turbine has also been started.

Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and DyCM Nitin Patel also reached the site of the dam in Kevadiya in Narmada district of central Gujarat and offered prayers to the Narmada water.

According to official information, the water level in the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Dam reservoir, the lifeline of water supply in Gujarat had reached an all time high of 131.45 m at 6am on Friday morning after which 26 of the 30 gates installed and closed in 2017 were opened for the first time to release water.

Due to the installation of gates the highest level of the reservoir had increased from 121.92 meters to 138.68 m after closure of 30 sluice gates in 2017. Earlier, the highest water level was reached 130.75m on September 25, 2017. This level was surpassed on Thursday night.

The water level had started rising due to heavy rain since 6pm of July 30 when it was 121.73 m. Since then, the water level till 6 am on Friday morning had seen a rise of almost 10 meters (9.72 m to be precise). The corresponding live storage at 3554.87 Million Cubic Feet (61.72%) was also the highest.

However, after opening of the gates the water level was again declining and it had come down to 130.99 m at 10 am and further lowered to 130.85m at 11 am.

At 11 am, the live storage was 3417.27MCM. The outflow was 647513 cusec, while the inflow was 331743 cusec.

Due to release of over 6 lakh cusec of water in the downstream of the river the areas adjoining the river bank in Bharuch district have been alerted. Water was also being discharged through canal for irrigation channels.

An official at the Narmada flood control unit in Vadodara on Friday said 'The inflow increased mainly due to rain in the catchment areas in MP and intermediate free catchment of river Narmada in Gujarat. The live has also increased to by over 32% in 10 days. The total live storage capacity of the reservoir is 5760MCM, while the gross, including the dead storage of 3700 MCM, is 9460 MCM.

It supplies water for drinking and other domestic needs to around 167 towns and more than 10000 villages of the state in which more than half of the population resides.
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