Telangana asks AP to ensure free flood flow in Godavari
With the project at its full reservoir level of 150 feet, the State has already built a compelling case for the submergence of 899 acres owing to standing water. The backwater impacts are projected to have an impact on another 50,000 acres of Telangana. With the project's impoundment of water, local stream stagnation and drainage congestion would have an even greater impact.
40,000 acres of property were impacted by the flooding in July of last year. Concern about the effects of the flood on the revered Lord Rama temple in bhadrachalam has been expressed by the State. In addition, it is of utmost importance to protect the Manuguru Heavy Water Plant from flood damage.
On its worries in 2019, the State has already petitioned the supreme Court. The State had brought up the submergence problems with the Central Water Commission and the polavaram project Authority in response to the supreme Court's directives from september 6, 2022.
The backwaters in the river during the monsoon would also obstruct the drainage system of another 31 similar small streams. In the telangana revenue mandals of Aswapuram, bhadrachalam, Burgumpadu, Cherla, Dummugudem, Pinapaka, and Manuguru, several lift irrigation systems, parks, and agricultural fields may be impacted.
In the event that ap refused to cooperate, the State encouraged the CWC to enable a survey without its assistance.
Godavari floods that reached 71.3 feet in bhadrachalam in July 2022 caused the submersion of 40,446 acres and the evacuation of 28,000 people from 103 communities. But andhra pradesh countered that the flood in the Godavari need not be a result of the project's water impoundment.