Krishna river in spate with rains, reservoirs fill up Updated Jul 25, 2021, 6:47 am IST Priyadarshini Jurala project received inflows of 3,56,709 cusecs on Saturday evening of which 3,53,210 cusecs was discharged The flooded Polavaram project in West Godavari district on Saturday. (DC/Manikanta Kumar) KURNOOL: The Krishna river is in spate following heavy rains in catchment areas in Maharashtra and Karnataka in the past few days and the flood is fast filling reservoirs on its basin. The current storage in all the Krishna basin reservoirs together ris 329.40 tmc ft against last year's storage of 295.11 tmc ft. Priyadarshini Jurala project received inflows of 3,56,709 cusecs on Saturday evening of which 3,53,210 cusecs was discharged. Out of 62 crest gates on the project, officials opened 34 gates. Upstream projects on the Krishna rivers are also getting huge inflows. Almatti dam received 2,37,963 cusecs and let out 3.5 lakh cusecs. The next reservoir, Narayanapur, got 3.2 lakh cusecs and outflows were recorded as 3,41,800 cusecs.