CHENNAI: The Stanley Reservoir at Mettur has reached its full level of 120 feet for the fifth time this year during the early hours of Wednesday.

The reservoir witnessed an inflow of 1.14 lakh cusecs at 4 am on Wednesday, prompting the authorities to discharge 90,000 cusecs of water. Six hours later, around 10 am, the officials reduced the discharge to 75,000 cusecs.

They have further reduced it to 55,000 cusecs at 1 pm when the inflow came down to 40,750 cusecs.

The dam power house and tunnel power house released 21,300 cusecs, while the remaining was released through Ellis saddle surplus.