Following heavy rain in Satara, Karad, Patan and adjoining areas, the water storage capacity of Koyna dam, 105.25 TMC, has been exhausted, so the dam management has decided to release water and increase the discharge into the Koyna river basin on Saturday.

Currently, all six curved gates of the dam are being raised by two feet, and 18,734 cusecs of water are being released from it, and 2,100 cusecs of water is being generated from the power house, making a total of 20,834 cusecs of water being released into the Koyna river basin.

Due to these two days of rain, local rivers, streams and rivulets in many places have crossed the danger level. Apart from this, large amounts of water have entered the surrounding fields, completely damaging crops such as rice, soybean, groundnut, wheat, sugarc

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