Malampuzha
Palakkad district · Irrigation · Malampuzha basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
57.0%
Previous 57.0%
Water level
110.58 m (362.8 ft)
FRL 115.06 m (377.5 ft)
Spillway release
1.2 cumecs
Latest report
Rain forecast
13 mm
Next 72h 30 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Releasing 1.24 cumecs — controlled release
- • Controlled outflow of 1.24 cumecs (gates not reported open)
Rate of rise(derived)
+0.01 m / 24 h
Downstream exposure
Bharathapuzha headworks below Malampuzha through Palakkad town
Local bodies on this reach: Malampuzha, Palakkad Municipality, Kannadi, Parali
District control room: 1077 / 0491-2505309
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Malampuzha 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
- 24.3°C
- Humidity
- 98%
- Rain 24h
- 37.0 mm
- Wind
- 13 km/h
- Gusts
- 24 km/h
- Pressure
- 1000 hPa
AI analysis
An AI analysis for this reservoir will appear after the next scheduled briefing.
- Controlled release alert — Malampuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 20:30 IST
- Controlled release alert — Malampuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 19:55 IST
- Controlled release alert — Malampuzha · 06 Aug 2026, 18:24 IST
- Warning alert — Malampuzha · 03 Aug 2026, 10:13 IST
Environmental & carbon accounting
Net carbon sink- Reservoir methane (gross)
- 1,721 t CO₂e /yr
- Green carbon — catchment forest
- 35,424 t CO₂e /yr
- Blue carbon — sediment burial
- 452 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
≈ 452 indicative credits/yr
vs CEA grid 0.716 kg CO₂/kWh, 35% capacity factor
Net catchment balance: 34,155 t CO₂e/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
- 1955
- Dam type
- Masonry gravity with earth flanks
- Height
- 42.0 m (137.8 ft)
- Length
- 1849 m (6066.3 ft)
- Gross capacity
- 226.0 MCM
- Live capacity
- 226.0 MCM
- Catchment area
- 148 km²
- Full reservoir level
- 115.06 m (377.5 ft)
- Power station
- —
- Installed capacity
- —
- Purpose
- Irrigation and drinking water
- Operator
- Irrigation Department
- River
- Malampuzha
- Basin
- Bharathapuzha
- Nearby towns
- Palakkad, Malampuzha
- Emergency contact
- 1077 / 0491-2505309
Malampuzha, commissioned in 1955 across a tributary of the Bharathapuzha, is Kerala's largest irrigation reservoir and the main drinking-water source for Palakkad town.