With Nagarjuna Sagar dam almost getting filled to the capacity, authorities were all set to open its flood gates for the first time after four long years, on Saturday.

As the level of water continues to increase the chief engineer of the project has asked the collectors of Nalgonda district in Telangana and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh to alert the people along the course of Krishna against the possibility of flooding.

The project which had dried to the bone last year was receiving heavy inflows of flood waters as gates of upstream Srisailam project were again opened.

Against the full reservoir level of 590 feet, the water level in Friday evening reached 585 feet and was rising as the inflow stood at 73000 cusecs.

Due to the heavy rains in upstream areas in Karanataka, river Krishna was in full flow filling all the major dams on the way. Both Almatti and Narayanpur in Karanataka were full to the capacity and authorities were discharging 1.35 lakh and 1.38 lakh cusecs of water. At Jurala project in Telangana against the inflow of 1 lakh cusecs authorities were releasing 80 thousand cusecs.

Apart from Jurala, Srisailam project was also receiving water from Tungabhadra project in Karnataka. Officials have opened 12 gates of the project discharging 52639 cusecs of water towards Srisailam.

On the whole the inflow at Srisailam was 149000 cusecs.

The filling of both the Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar marks a frantic change compared to last few years and has brought cheers to farmers of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.