Kanjirappuzha
Palakkad district · Irrigation · Kanjirappuzha basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
92.0%
Previous 92.0%
Water level
96.57 m (316.8 ft)
FRL 97.50 m (319.9 ft)
Spillway release
0.4 cumecs
Latest report
Rain forecast
11 mm
Next 72h 32 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Storage high at 92.0%
- • Only 0.93 m of freeboard left below FRL
- • Level 96.57 m is at or above the blue alert level of 96.50 m
Rate of rise(derived)
+0.11 m / 24 h
At the current rate, Orange alert band in ~4 days (0.43 m to go)
Downstream exposure
The downstream reach and local body list for Kanjirappuzha have not been transcribed from a District Disaster Management Plan yet, so none are shown.
District control room: 1077 / 0491-2505309
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Kanjirappuzha in a form this platform can verify, so none is shown. Where an operating curve is published — as for Idukki after the 2018 floods — it is plotted against actual storage instead of being estimated.
Rainfall forecast — next 48 hours
Spillway releases
Current weather at the dam
- Temperature
- 23.9°C
- Humidity
- 98%
- Rain 24h
- 38.3 mm
- Wind
- 11 km/h
- Gusts
- 19 km/h
- Pressure
- 1002 hPa
AI analysis
Kanjirappuzha is at blue alert with 93% storage, down from 94%, and the water level is 96.67 m—0.83 m below the 97.5 m FRL—while releasing 5.55 cumecs through partially opened spillway shutters and the river sluice. Recent rain of 38.3 mm is driving inflows, though the forecast eases to 10.8 mm in 24 hours and 32.2 mm in 72 hours; the next alert level would be triggered if continued inflow raises the reservoir to the authority’s next prescribed level above the current 96.67 m.
- Blue alert alert — Kanjirappuzha · 02 Nov 2026, 08:37 IST
- Controlled release alert — Kanjirappuzha · 28 Oct 2026, 08:37 IST
- Blue alert alert — Kanjirappuzha · 26 Oct 2026, 08:37 IST
- Orange alert alert — Kanjirappuzha · 25 Oct 2026, 08:37 IST
- Blue alert alert — Kanjirappuzha · 24 Oct 2026, 08:37 IST
Environmental & carbon accounting
Insufficient data- Reservoir methane (gross)
- Not enough data /yr
- Green carbon — catchment forest
- Not enough data /yr
- Blue carbon — sediment burial
- Not enough data /yr
- Hydropower grid offset
- Not enough data /yr
CH₄ from flooded land × GWP-100 (27), age-adjusted
Western Ghats forest sink, 60% forest cover assumed
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vs CEA grid 0.716 kg CO₂/kWh, 35% capacity factor
Net catchment balance: Not enough data/yr (forest + sediment sinks minus reservoir methane)
Estimate, not a measurement — built from IPCC 2019 Flooded Lands factors and public dam data. Kerala does not publish measured reservoir emissions. Credits shown are indicative, not registered. How this is calculated
Reservoir information bulletin
- Commissioned
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- Dam type
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- Height
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- Length
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- Gross capacity
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- Live capacity
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- Catchment area
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- Full reservoir level
- 97.50 m (319.9 ft)
- Power station
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- Installed capacity
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- Purpose
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- Operator
- Irrigation
- River
- Kanjirappuzha
- Basin
- Bharathapuzha
- Nearby towns
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- Emergency contact
- Kerala SDMA: 1077 / 0471-2364424