A fisherman navigates his boat in the Doyang reservoir. (Inset) Live Water Storage Status in the Doyang HEP from August 26 to October 21 based on Central Water Commission’s weekly ‘Live storage status of 130 important reservoirs of the country’ Bulletins. (Morung File Photo)
Morung Express News
Dimapur | October 24
The volume of water storage in Nagaland’s Doyang Hydro Electric Plant (HEP) has remained more or less static till October 21 and were below last year as well as last 10 years average, as per the weekly updates by the Central Water Commission (CWC).
It also reflected a low level of rainfall in the State during the same period. According the CWC’s latest bulletin issued on October 21, the State witnessed 60 mm of rainfall from October 1-20, which was a 54% departure from the normal.
Accordingly, from September 30 till October 21, the water level increased only once on October 14 to 0.321 billion cubic metre (BCM), before reverting back to 0.31 BCM, the level that has been maintained throughout the intervening period.
Accordingly, on October 21, the storage level in Doyang HEP was 0.31 BCM, below the corresponding period last year at 0.33 BCM. It was also below the last 10 years average of 0.33 BCM b y -6%.
The volume of water storage in Doyang HEP has been increasing consistently since August 26 before settling at 0.31 BCM on September 23. As noted above, it remained static thereafter, apart from a slight increase once on October 14. (See table)
The live capacity at Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of the Doyang HEP is fixed at 0.54 BCM, informed the CWC, which monitor the Live Storage Status of 130 Reservoirs in the Country.
Meanwhile at the All-India level, the latest bulletin observed that as on October 21, 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 October 21, the All-India current year volume was recorded at 141.93 BCM against 150.79 BCM during the corresponding period last year.
However, it was still better than (8%) the last 10 years average of 131.31 BCM during the same period.
States having better storage (in %) than last year for corresponding period on October 21 were Rajasthan, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and Kerala, while Telangana had same average as last year.
States having lesser storage (in %) than last year for corresponding period were Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Odisha, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, AP&TG (Two combined projects in both states) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
The data contained in the bulletin is as received from the State Government/Project Authorities, the CWC stated.
