Despite deficit rain, water reservoirs close to 100% full

PANAJI

: Even though Goa has received deficit rainfall during the 2018 monsoon, the state’s five major

water reservoirs

are in good health, being 98%-100% full as on October 8.



The overall monsoon may have witnessed a shortfall, but heavy bouts of rainfall received in July led the reservoirs to peak fast and make up for the deficit of the later months.

The Anjunem

reservoir

, located on Costi Nadi in Anjunem village in Sattari, has seen its water level rise by over 20m since June 1. This is the sharpest rise of all five reservoirs in Goa.

The

dam

which draws water from a tributary of the Valvanti located in the Mhadei basin, is currently 98% full. At 92.9m, the reservoir is less than a meter short of its full capacity.

The Selaulim reservoir at over 100% is still seeing its water spillover through the dam’s unique duck spillway. The project is located at Sirga, 5km from Sanguem town, in the Zuari river basin. The dam is on the Selaulim river (also known as Sanguem).

While the dam’s full capacity is 41.15m, the water level is currently at 41.82m.

The Amthane reservoir stands currently at 50ms, which is 98% of its full capacity. Amthane dam is one of the important sources of drinking as well as irrigation water to areas from Bicholim and Bardez.

The smaller reservoirs of Panchwadi and Chapoli are 100% full, with water levels at 38.7m and 26m currently, respectively.

The Panchwadi reservoir in Mhaisal, Ponda, caters to the irrigation and drinking supply requirements of the villages in the neighbourhood.

Meanwhile, the water in Chapoli supplies raw water to the PWD to provide potable water to residents of Canacona.