Karapuzha
Wayanad district · Irrigation · Karapuzha basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
42.0%
Previous 42.0%
Water level
757.05 m (2483.8 ft)
FRL 763.00 m (2503.3 ft)
Spillway release
1.1 cumecs
Latest report
Rain forecast
29 mm
Next 72h 76 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Shutters / gates reported open — controlled release
Rate of rise(derived)
-0.05 m / 24 h
Downstream exposure
The downstream reach and local body list for Karapuzha have not been transcribed from a District Disaster Management Plan yet, so none are shown.
District control room: 1077 / 04936-204151
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Karapuzha 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
- 20.6°C
- Humidity
- 98%
- Rain 24h
- 0.7 mm
- Wind
- 4 km/h
- Gusts
- 12 km/h
- Pressure
- 916 hPa
AI analysis
Karapuzha is at red alert, with storage rising from 43% to 66% and the water level at 757.15 m, 5.85 m below the 763 m FRL. The rise is being driven by 42.4 mm of rain in the past 24 hours; all three spillway shutters are open 10 cm, releasing 3.84 cumecs, alongside drinking-water outflow. The next alert trigger is not specified; forecast rain is 4.5 mm in 24 hours and 22.6 mm over 72 hours, with flood risk at 52 and landslide risk at 20.
- Controlled release alert — Karapuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 20:30 IST
- Danger alert — Karapuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 20:00 IST
- Controlled release alert — Karapuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 19:55 IST
- Danger alert — Karapuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 18:30 IST
- Controlled release alert — Karapuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 18:24 IST
Environmental & carbon accounting
Insufficient data- Reservoir methane (gross)
- 1,456 t CO₂e /yr
- Green carbon — catchment forest
- Not enough data /yr
- Blue carbon — sediment burial
- 153 t CO₂e /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
≈ 153 indicative credits/yr
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
- 76.5 MCM
- Live capacity
- 76.5 MCM
- Catchment area
- —
- Full reservoir level
- 763.00 m (2503.3 ft)
- Power station
- —
- Installed capacity
- —
- Purpose
- —
- Operator
- Irrigation
- River
- Karapuzha
- Basin
- Kabini
- Nearby towns
- Sultan Bathery, Kalpetta
- Emergency contact
- 1077