City's 3rd largest dam at 90% of capacity, three gates opened
The dam is the third largest among the seven supplying water to the city in terms of useful content.
Its reservoir's full storage level is 285m and the current water level is at 282.1m.
Water from it is now being discharged at a rate of 3,000 cusecs.
The total stock across the seven lakes was 9,82,413 million litres as on early Monday morning, accounting for around 67.9% of the lakes' maximum capacity of 14,47,363 million litres. On the same day in 2024, the stock was just 14.5% of the total capacity and 18.8% in 2023.
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"The monsoon's early onset and good rainfall have come as a big relief this year.
Last year, we were worried as there was no proper rain till July 10. However, this year, our stocks crossed 50% in June itself. We are in a comfortable position in terms of water stock this year," said a senior BMC official.
Owing to the low stock last year, a 10% water cut was imposed on Mumbaikars from June 5-July 29.
According to BMC's hydraulic engineering department, water released from the Middle Vaitarna dam is stored in the Modak Sagar reservoir.
The Middle Vaitarna dam, located in Mokhada taluka in Palghar district, is 102.4m high and 565m long and has a maximum capacity of 1,93,530 million litres.
Due to continuous heavy rainfall in its catchment area over the past few days, water level of the reservoir has been rising rapidly. As of Monday, the catchment area of the dam received 1,507mm of rain and as a precautionary measure, three gates of the dam were opened 30cm, said officials.
On June 18, the Powai lake, which supplies 10 million litres per day of water, had overflowed. Water supplied from the lake is non-potable and is used for industrial purposes. The day before that, the lake stock had dipped below 10%, which prompted BMC to tap into its reserve stock. The civic body stopped dipping into the reserve following heavy rainfall in the lake's catchment areas.
This year, the southwest monsoon arrived in Mumbai on May 26—the earliest ever for the city since IMD began maintaining records in 1950.
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