With subduing rainfall, the water inflow into both the Bhakra and Pong dams on Wednesday declined massively after days of torrential rains in Himachal Pradesh that alarmingly increased the water level in them, an official said.An official said .
The India Meteorological Department on Saturday issued a red alert for seven districts of the state and an orange alert for three districts for the next 48 hours as the state continued to receive heavy rainfall.
Authorities on Sunday opened all floodgates from the Pandoh diversion dam in Himachal Pradesh after heavy overnight rainfall in its catchment.However, they said still there was no need for worry because the excess water discharged from the .
Authorities are on alert in the wake of the flood-like situation in the districts of Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Nawanshahr, Ropar and Mohali, which share their boundary with Himachal Pradesh owing to the catchment areas of the Bhakra Dam reservoir Sutlej and several khuds (rivulets) flowing from Himachal into Punjab receiving heavy to very heavy rainfall
Live storage capacity refers to the actual water storage capacity of a dam against its Full Reservoir Level (FRL), which is always higher. The current live storage indicates the water available in the dam at a particular time.