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At this level, water flows by gravity into the Yeleru canal.As of Monday evening, water level shot up to 73 metres. This will do away with the need of pumping water from the Yeleru reservoir from dead storage in the coming years,” said the official.Once the water level drops below 71.5 metres in Yeleru before or during the summer months, the GVMC has been pumping water from dead storage to meet the city’s water needs. Visakhapatnam: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation ( GVMC ) has stopped pumping water from dead storage in the Yeleru reservoir on Sunday after the waters reached optimum level of 71.7 metres. Hopefully, this could be the last dead storage pumping from Yeleru. It has been spending about Rs 10 crore on pumping water every year..