Hydro units of BBMB and RSD running to utilise stored water
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ August 6,2025
After heavy rains in the catchment areas of Bhakra and Pong, very heavy inflows were received during a few days in the BBMB Reservoirs and Ranjit Sagar Dam.
All the six Pong Power House units are running round the clock in a bid to utilise stored water on the reservoir as the water level in Pong Dam reservoir is increasing sharply due to heavy rainfalls in Himachal.
Pong Power House generated 85.5 lakh units on Tuesday and Pong Dam the water level is 13670.6 feet against last year’s level of 1333.6 feet on corresponding day. In the first five days of August the water level has increased by 13 feet. At the start of the filling season the water level was 1288.5 feet. At Pong Dam the filling can be done up to 1390 feet. At Pong Dam the inflow is 93650 cusecs with outflow of 18340 cusecs. The margin left for the danger level filling level is 19.4 feet.
At Bhakra reservoir today water level is 1635 feet against last year’s level of 1612.5 feet an increase of 12.5 feet in the last five days At Bhakra Dam the maximum storage limit followed by BBMB is 1680 feet. The inflow at Bhakra reservoir is 59200 cusecs and discharge of 22300 cusecs. There is still a margin of 45 feet for maximum permissible level. The generation on Tuesday at Bhakra power houses was 213 Lakh units.
At Ranjit Sagar Dam the water level is 516.8 meters against last year’s level of 494.24 meters, above by 22 meters. The water inflow at Ranjit Sagar Dam is 24000 cusecs and discharge is around 10470 cusec . The generation on Tuesday was 62.6 lakh units.
Weather department (IMD) had made a forecast that the second half of the southwest monsoon season is expected to deliver above-normal rainfall exceeding 106% of the long-period average from August to September.
