Kuttiady (Kakkayam, KSEB)
Kozhikode district · KSEB · Kuttiadi basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
58.8%
Previous 59.1%
Water level
752.09 m (2467.5 ft)
FRL 758.04 m (2487.0 ft)
Spillway release
—
Latest report
Rain forecast
23 mm
Next 72h 50 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Level 752.09 m is below the blue alert level of 755.50 m
Rate of rise(derived)
-0.06 m / 24 h
Downstream exposure
Kuttiadi river below Kakkayam / Peruvannamuzhi towards Vadakara
Local bodies on this reach: Kayakkodi, Velom, Maruthonkara, Nadapuram, Vadakara
District control room: 1077 / 0495-2371002
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Kuttiady (Kakkayam, KSEB) 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
- 20.5°C
- Humidity
- 99%
- Rain 24h
- 13.5 mm
- Wind
- 1 km/h
- Gusts
- 7 km/h
- Pressure
- 924 hPa
AI analysis
Kuttiady reservoir is at 49.64% storage, up from 44.43%, with the water level at 750.54 m—7.50 m below the 758.04 m FRL; there is no spill and all gates are closed. The rise follows 6.4 mm of rain, with 34.3 mm forecast in the next 24 hours and 38 mm over 72 hours, but the next alert-level trigger is not specified in the data.
- Blue alert alert — Kuttiady (Kakkayam, KSEB) · 06 Aug 2026, 21:37 IST
- Warning alert — Kuttiady (Kakkayam) · 06 Aug 2026, 13:37 IST
- Danger alert — Kuttiady (Kakkayam) · 03 Aug 2026, 14:37 IST
- Danger alert — Kuttiady (Kakkayam) · 03 Aug 2026, 11:15 IST
- Warning alert — Kuttiady (Kakkayam) · 03 Aug 2026, 10:45 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
- 4,93,933 t CO₂e /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
- 1972
- Dam type
- Concrete gravity
- Height
- —
- Length
- —
- Gross capacity
- —
- Live capacity
- —
- Catchment area
- —
- Full reservoir level
- 758.04 m (2487.0 ft)
- Power station
- Kuttiady HEP
- Installed capacity
- 225.0 MW
- Purpose
- Hydroelectric
- Operator
- KSEB
- River
- Kuttiadi
- Basin
- Kuttiadi
- Nearby towns
- Kakkayam, Perambra
- Emergency contact
- 1077 / 0495-2371002
The Kakkayam (Kuttiady) reservoir on the Kuttiady river drives the Kuttiady power complex in Kozhikode district, expanded over the years to a combined installed capacity of about 225 MW.
Kuttiadi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuttiyadi (Irrigation)Kozhikode | 37.46 / 44.41122.9 ft / 145.7 ft | 48.0% | — | 7 m³/s | Controlled release — water is being released in regulated quantities, not a danger warning |
| Kuttiady (Kakkayam, KSEB)Kozhikode | 752.09 / 758.042467.5 ft / 2487.0 ft | 58.8% | — | — | No warning — below every published alert level |