Malankara
Idukki district · Irrigation · Thodupuzha basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
65.0%
Previous 67.0%
Water level
38.58 m (126.6 ft)
FRL 42.00 m (137.8 ft)
Spillway release
15.6 cumecs
Latest report
Rain forecast
13 mm
Next 72h 31 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Shutters / gates reported open — controlled release
Rate of rise(derived)
-0.18 m / 24 h
Downstream exposure
Thodupuzha river below Malankara towards Muvattupuzha
Local bodies on this reach: Thodupuzha, Karimannoor, Muvattupuzha, Arakuzha
District control room: 1077 / 04862-233111
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Malankara 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
- 20.0°C
- Humidity
- 100%
- Rain 24h
- 25.0 mm
- Wind
- 5 km/h
- Gusts
- 13 km/h
- Pressure
- 906 hPa
AI analysis
Malankara is at blue alert with storage at 88%, up from 81%, and the water level at 40.92 m against the 42 m FRL. The rise is being driven by 25 mm of rain in the past 24 hours despite a 56.15 cumec spill through two shutters opened 10 cm each, along with drinking-water and power-generation outflows; the next alert level would be triggered if the level rises further toward 42 m under the forecast 13 mm in 24 hours and 31.2 mm in 72 hours.
- Controlled release alert — Malankara · 17 Oct 2026, 08:37 IST
- Blue alert alert — Malankara · 15 Oct 2026, 12:37 IST
- Controlled release alert — Malankara · 10 Oct 2026, 11:37 IST
- Orange alert alert — Malankara · 07 Oct 2026, 13:37 IST
- Red alert alert — Malankara · 06 Oct 2026, 11:37 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
- 42.00 m (137.8 ft)
- Power station
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- Installed capacity
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- Purpose
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- Operator
- KSEB
- River
- Thodupuzha
- Basin
- Muvattupuzha
- Nearby towns
- Thodupuzha, Muvattupuzha
- Emergency contact
- 1077