Eight gates of Siddheshwar Dam in Maharashtra's Hingoli district had to be lifted to a height of one metre for water discharge on Tuesday after the storage capacity reached 99.39 per cent, an official said.

The storage level of the dam, built on Purna river, a tributary of the Godavari, reached 250 million cubic metres in the morning, after which the decision to lift the gates had to be taken, leading to discharge of 6,242 cusecs (cubic foot per second) of water, he said.