Krishna River in full flow, 22 gates lifted at Sagar dam Updated Aug 3, 2021, 9:41 am IST As the reservoir is getting inflow of 3,54,288 cusecs from upstream, the authorities are releasing the same quantity of water At present, the reservoir is filled to a height of 587.20 ft against FRL of 590 ft with current storage of 305.62 tmcft (97.94%) against the gross capacity at FRL of 312 tmcft of water. — DC Image VIJAYAWADA: With heavy inflow of water from upstream projects in Krishna River, the gates at Nagarjunasagar Dam lifted to release nearly 3.54 lakh cusecs of water downstream on Monday. Water resources authorities maintain that as they started lifting the gates one after another from 6.30 pm on Sunday, so far, they had lifted 22 gates to a height of 10 feet out of a total of 26 gates.