Lifting of water from Sundilla barrage to Yellampally barrage is all set to begin from Tuesday night as the engineers of Kaleshwaram project and those belonging to the work agency of the pump house at Golivada linked to Sundilla — Megha Engineering — have made all arrangements.
Advisor (Lift Irrigation) to Government K. Penta Reddy along with the project engineers inspected Golivada pump house on Monday to examine the arrangements being made for lifting of water to Yellampally.
According to the project engineers, six motors at Golivada pump house have been made ready for operation and four of them would be put into use with initial experimental wet run in spells before making them operational in all respects. Pumping water from Medigadda to Annaram and Annaram to Sundilla through Kannepally and Kasipeta pump houses continues to go on by pumping back water realised from Pranahitha after its confluence with Godavari back into the upstream of Godavari.
Till Monday, over 11.5 tmc ft of water has been pumped from Medigadda to Annaram with the help of six motors starting from July 6, when the pumping was started with one motor. Similarly, over 4.75 tmc ft water has been pumped from Annaram to Sundilla with the help of four pumps starting from one pump on July 20.
Project engineers stated that water storage in Medigadda was 4.44 tmc ft against its capacity of 16.17 tmc ft and the level at 94.9 metres against the full reservoir level of 100 metres. The inflows into Medigadda were recorded at 9,600 cusecs on Monday morning. The water storage in Annaram was at 7.77 tmc ft against its capacity of 10.87 tmc ft with the level recorded at 117.6 metres against the FRL of 119 metres.
Similarly, the water storage in Sundilla was recorded at 5.46 tmc ft against the capacity of 8.83 tmc ft and the level at 127.65 metres against the FRL of 130 metres.
Once the water from Sundilla reaches Yellampally barrage, the engineers would take up lifting of water from Nandi Medaram pump house by drawing water from Yellampally with gravity flow and then the pumping of water would begin at Laxmipur to put water into the flood flow canal of Sriramsagar project, taking it to Mid Manair reservoir.
