As heavy rains lashed Mumbai and its suburbs, the Tulsi lake, one of the seven dams that supplies drinking water to the metropolis, overflowed on Friday, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said, Tulsi lake situated in Sanjay Gandhi National Park reached it's full capacity around 11 am. Tulsi is the smallest of the seven dams that supply potable water to Mumbai, and has a storage capacity of 8,046 million litres.
The city gets 18 million litres of water from the lake every day. The catchment areas of the dam received good rainfall in the last few days. When the Tulsi lake overflows, its water goes into the Vihar lake.There are total seven dams- Tulsi, Tansa, Vihar, Bhatsa, Modak Sagar, Upper Vaitarna, and Middle Vaitarna that supplies potable to Mumbai.
Mumbai has been receiving heavy rains since a few days. Mumbai island city recorded 55.3 mm rain, while 135 mm and 140.5 mm rainfall was recorded in the eastern and western suburbs, respectively between 4 am to 9 am.