Sambalpur: The Hirakud dam authorities on Thursday opened three more gates of the reservoir following the Meteorological Department’s (IMD) forecast about the movement of the well-marked low-pressure towards Chhattisgarh in the next 24 hours.
While the reservoir recorded the optimum water level of 630 feet by 11 am, the inflow and outflow through the eight gates were 1,52,164 cusecs per second.
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