A bird eye view of Doyang HEP in Wokha district. (Inset) Live Water Storage Status in the Doyang HEP based on Central Water Commission’s weekly ‘Live storage status of 130 important reservoirs of the country’ Bulletins. (Photo Courtesy: wokha.nic.in)
Morung Express News
Dimapur | October 3
The volume of water storage reached above last year status in Nagaland’s Doyang Hydro Electric Plant (HEP) on September 30, the last day of normal Southwest Monsoon period, the latest updates from the Central Water Commission (CWC) informed.
At 0.31 billion cubic metre (BCM), while the storage level was same as last week, the volume in the Doyang HEP on September 30 was above the corresponding period last year at 0.30 BCM.
As reported earlier by The Morung Express, the volume of water storage in Doyang HEP has been increasing consistently since August 26.
It was 0.22 BCM on August 26, which increased to 0.25 BCM on September 2, 0.28 BCM on September 9, and 0.30 BCM on September 16; 0.31 BCM on September 23 and 0.31 BCM on September 30.
However, while the live storage level was above as the corresponding status last year, it was still -8% departure from last 10 years average of 0.34 BCM, informed the CWC’s weekly ‘Live storage status of 130 important reservoirs of the country.’
The live capacity at Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of the Doyang HEP is fixed at 0.54 BCM.
Meanwhile, the bulletin further observed that the “overall storage position is less than the corresponding period of last year in the country as a whole but it is better than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period.”
On September 30, the All-India current year volume was recorded at 138.33 BCM against 150.19 BCM during the corresponding period last year.
However, it was still better (4%) than the last 10 years average of 132.96 BCM during the same period.
As on September 30, States having better storage (in %) than last year for corresponding period were Jharkhand, West Bengal, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.
States having lesser storage (in %) than last year for corresponding period: Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Odisha, Tripura, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, AP&TG (Two combined projects in both states), Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala.
The data contained in the bulletin is as received from the State Government/Project Authorities, the CWC stated.
