IRSA’s technical committee to meet on Tuesday

ISLAMABAD, Mar 25 (APP):The technical committee of Indus River System Authority (IRSA) will meet on Tuesday to finalize water availability estimates for the forthcoming Kharif season.
The meeting would be presided over by IRSA’s director operations Khalid Idress Rana and directors Regulation of Irrigation department of all four provinces, director WAPDA and Met Office would submit their respective estimates and finalize ‘anticipated water availability for Kharif 2019’ for advisory committee of the authority, official sources told APP here.
The advisory committee would then approve a water distribution plan based on irrigation requirements of the four provinces.
Meanwhile, IRSA released 89,400 cusecs water from various rim stations with inflow of 72,200 cusecs.
According to the data released by IRSA, water level in the Indus River at Tarbela Dam was 1,393.42 feet, which was 7.42 feet higher than its dead level of 1,386 feet. Water inflow in the dam was recorded as 17,500 cusecs and outflow as 15,000 cusecs.
The water level in the Jhelum River at Mangla Dam was 1,117.25 feet, which was 77.25 feet higher than its dead level of 1,040 feet whereas the inflow and outflow of water was recorded as 25,300 cusecs and 45,000 cusecs respectively.
The release of water at Kalabagh, Taunsa and Sukkur was recorded as 25,100 cusecs, 33,200 cusecs and 4,000 cusecs respectively.
Similarly from the Kabul River, 13,300 cusecs of water was released at Nowshera and 6,500 cusecs from the Chenab River at Marala.
The total water storage capacity stood at 0.736 million acre feet.