A boatman navigates through Doyang River. After recording low storage in the recent past, the volume of level at Doyang HEP reached the last year status on September 23 (inset) as per the weekly the Central Water Commission’s weekly Live storage status of reservoirs on September 23. (Morung File Photo)
Morung Express News
Dimapur I September 26
The volume of water storage improved further in Nagaland’s Doyang Hydro Electric Plant (HEP) increased further on September 23 to reached the last year level while the All-India level was above the last 10 years average, the latest updates from the Central Water Commission (CWC) informed.
The level at Doyang Hydro Electric Plant (HEP) from 0.30 billion cubic metres (BCM) on September 16 to 0.31 BCM on September 23 (See table).
The water level has been increasing gradually during the last five weeks. 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 and 0.31 on September 23.
However, while the live storage level was same as the corresponding status last year, it was still -9% departure from last 10 years average 0.34 BCM.
Inferring from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) till September 17, The Morung Express last week had reported that the storage level at Doyang HEP might increase further next week due to surplus rainfall in Wokha district, the main catchment area of the Doyang River. The live capacity at Full Reservoir Level (FRL) of the Doyang HEP is fixed at 0.54 BCM.
Meanwhile, the CWC’s weekly ‘Live storage status of 130 important reservoirs of the country’ bulletins, informed that the water level in the reservoirs across India was 133.17 BCM, 1% above the last 10 years average of 131.36 DCM on September 23.
Despite this, the level was still below the corresponding period last year when it was 148.82 BCM.
As of September 23, States having better storage (in %) than or equal to last year for corresponding period were Jharkhand, West Bengal, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka.
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 and Kerala.
