Kundala
Idukki district · KSEB · Muthirapuzha basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
77.9%
Previous 77.5%
Water level
1756.65 m (5763.3 ft)
FRL 1758.69 m (5770.0 ft)
Spillway release
—
Latest report
Rain forecast
43 mm
Next 72h 64 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Only 2.04 m of freeboard left below FRL
- • Level 1756.65 m is at or above the orange alert level of 1756.00 m
Rate of rise(derived)
+0.05 m / 24 h
At the current rate, Red alert band in ~7 days (0.35 m to go)
Downstream exposure
The downstream reach and local body list for Kundala have not been transcribed from a District Disaster Management Plan yet, so none are shown.
District control room: 1077 / 04862-233111
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Kundala 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
- 16.2°C
- Humidity
- 99%
- Rain 24h
- 27.4 mm
- Wind
- 4 km/h
- Gusts
- 10 km/h
- Pressure
- 824 hPa
AI analysis
Kundala is at no alert level, with storage at 62.09% (up from 61.44%) and water level at 1754.5 m, 4.19 m below the 1758.69 m FRL; all gates are closed with no spill or sluice discharge. The rise follows 33.8 mm of rain, while 78.5 mm is forecast over 72 hours, so the next alert would be triggered if the reservoir reaches the applicable alert-level threshold, which is not provided.
- Orange alert alert — Kundala · 27 Oct 2026, 08:37 IST
- Blue alert alert — Kundala · 17 Oct 2026, 08:37 IST
- Controlled release alert — Kundala · 08 Aug 2026, 17:37 IST
- Warning alert — Kundala · 03 Aug 2026, 22:15 IST
- Warning alert — Kundala · 03 Aug 2026, 10:19 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
—
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
- —
- Dam type
- —
- Height
- —
- Length
- —
- Gross capacity
- —
- Live capacity
- —
- Catchment area
- —
- Full reservoir level
- 1758.69 m (5770.0 ft)
- Power station
- —
- Installed capacity
- —
- Purpose
- —
- Operator
- KSEB
- River
- Muthirapuzha
- Basin
- Periyar
- Nearby towns
- Munnar
- Emergency contact
- 1077
Muthirapuzha river system — levels & flow
Every monitored structure on this river, ordered by how much water it is passing downstream right now.
| Structure | Level / FRL (m) | Storage | Inflow | Outflow | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KallarIdukki | 820.20 / 824.482690.9 ft / 2705.0 ft | 25.1% | — | — | No warning — below every published alert level |
| KundalaIdukki | 1756.65 / 1758.695763.3 ft / 5770.0 ft | 77.9% | — | — | Orange alert, second stage — level at or above the orange alert level |
| Madupetty (Mattupetty)Idukki | 1581.35 / 1599.595188.2 ft / 5248.0 ft | 29.8% | — | — | No warning — below every published alert level |
| KallarkuttyIdukki | 453.45 / 456.251487.7 ft / 1496.9 ft | 69.6% | — | — | No warning — below every published alert level |