Pazhassi (Barrage)
Kannur district · Irrigation · Valapattanam basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
5.0%
Previous 6.0%
Water level
17.73 m (58.2 ft)
FRL 26.52 m (87.0 ft)
Spillway release
41.4 cumecs
Latest report
Rain forecast
17 mm
Next 72h 46 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Shutters / gates reported open — controlled release
- • No official alert levels are defined for this structure
Rate of rise(derived)
-0.10 m / 24 h
Downstream exposure
Valapattanam river below Pazhassi barrage through Iritty and Kuttiattoor to Valapattanam
Local bodies on this reach: Iritty, Payyavoor, Kuttiattoor, Mattannur, Kolacherry, Valapattanam
District control room: 1077 / 0497-2713266
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Pazhassi (Barrage) 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
- 24.9°C
- Humidity
- 99%
- Rain 24h
- 21.5 mm
- Wind
- 1 km/h
- Gusts
- 5 km/h
- Pressure
- 1006 hPa
AI analysis
Pazhassi is at red alert with only 9% storage and a water level of 18.6 m versus the 29.26 m FRL, while releasing 2,101.61 cumecs through 15 open shutters. The situation is being driven by 35.6 mm of recent rain and 86.5 mm forecast over 72 hours, with flood risk 32 and landslide risk 24; the next escalation would be triggered if continued inflows require opening the final shutter or raising releases further.
- Controlled release alert — Pazhassi (Barrage) · 14 Sep 2026, 13:37 IST
- Controlled release alert — Pazhassi (Barrage) · 06 Aug 2026, 20:30 IST
- Danger alert — Pazhassi (Barrage) · 06 Aug 2026, 20:00 IST
- Controlled release alert — Pazhassi (Barrage) · 06 Aug 2026, 19:55 IST
- Danger alert — Pazhassi (Barrage) · 06 Aug 2026, 18:30 IST
Environmental & carbon accounting
Insufficient data- Reservoir methane (gross)
- 286 t CO₂e /yr
- Green carbon — catchment forest
- Not enough data /yr
- Blue carbon — sediment burial
- 30 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
≈ 30 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
- —
- Dam type
- Barrage
- Height
- —
- Length
- —
- Gross capacity
- 15.0 MCM
- Live capacity
- 15.0 MCM
- Catchment area
- —
- Full reservoir level
- 26.52 m (87.0 ft)
- Power station
- —
- Installed capacity
- —
- Purpose
- Irrigation and drinking water
- Operator
- Irrigation Department
- River
- Valapattanam
- Basin
- Valapattanam
- Nearby towns
- Mattannur, Kannur
- Emergency contact
- 1077
The Pazhassi barrage across the Valapattanam river in Kannur is a shutter-controlled diversion structure with only a small live storage. During the monsoon its shutters are held open, so very large flows pass downstream even when the pond behind the barrage is nearly empty.