Ahmedabad: Dharoi dam over river Sabarmati has achieved the rule level prescribed for the period of upto 1st August. Against the rule level of 188.37 meter, the dam is 188.50 m full at 12.00 noon today (30th July). The highest level in Dharoi is 189.59 m. Against designed storage of 813.14 MCM, the dam has 701.97 mcm water storage at present. The dam is 86.33 percent full against full capacity. At noon today, the inflow was in the size of 4618 cusecs.

After 1st August the prescribed rule level will be higher and therefore there shall be further possibility of filling up the dam with more water. Subsequently if there’s heavy rains in catchment areas of Rajasthan in the months of August and September, and if the level in Dharoi is at its peak, the surplus water will be discharged in downstream river bed of Sabarmati, for which the Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has been already communicated. DeshGujarat