Vazhani
Thrissur district · Irrigation · Wadakkanchery basin · report 01 Nov 2026, 11:00 IST
Storage
68.0%
Previous 68.0%
Water level
57.77 m (189.5 ft)
FRL 62.48 m (205.0 ft)
Spillway release
0.0 cumecs
Latest report
Rain forecast
30 mm
Next 72h 44 mm
Storage & water level — last 30 days
Risk breakdown
- • Level 57.77 m is below the blue alert level of 60.98 m
Rate of rise(derived)
+0.01 m / 24 h
Downstream exposure
The downstream reach and local body list for Vazhani have not been transcribed from a District Disaster Management Plan yet, so none are shown.
District control room: 1077 / 0487-2362424
Rule curve — seasonal operating target
No rule curve (seasonal guide curve) is published for Vazhani 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
- 23.7°C
- Humidity
- 99%
- Rain 24h
- 22.3 mm
- Wind
- 4 km/h
- Gusts
- 14 km/h
- Pressure
- 1006 hPa
AI analysis
Vazhani is at yellow alert with storage at 72%, down from 73%, and the water level at 58.25 m versus the 62.48 m FRL; spill is 3.13 cumecs. Light rain—1.4 mm in the past 24 hours and only 0.4 mm forecast next 24 hours/3.5 mm over 72 hours—is limiting further rise, with flood risk 28 and landslide risk 6; the next alert would be triggered if the reservoir rises to the authority’s orange-alert threshold, which is not provided.
- Controlled release alert — Vazhani · 23 Sep 2026, 12:37 IST
- Watch alert — Vazhani · 03 Aug 2026, 10:13 IST
Environmental & carbon accounting
Insufficient data- Reservoir methane (gross)
- 381 t CO₂e /yr
- Green carbon — catchment forest
- Not enough data /yr
- Blue carbon — sediment burial
- 40 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
≈ 40 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
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- Dam type
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- Height
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- Length
- —
- Gross capacity
- 20.0 MCM
- Live capacity
- 20.0 MCM
- Catchment area
- —
- Full reservoir level
- 62.48 m (205.0 ft)
- Power station
- —
- Installed capacity
- —
- Purpose
- —
- Operator
- Irrigation
- River
- Wadakkanchery
- Basin
- Karuvannur
- Nearby towns
- Wadakkanchery
- Emergency contact
- 1077