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Pending court cases and inter-departmental issues are proving to be major hurdles that are slowing down desilting work in the other three reservoirs, sources said. As the reservoirs have not been desilted in decades, only 80 per cent of their actual combined storage is put to use. Officials of Water Resources Department who have been entrusted with this project, said second phase of desilting work will start in Cholavaram by next week. About 80,000 cubic metres of soil has been removed since March out of the total 38 lakh cubic metres. Desilting works in the other two reservoirs, Red Hills and Poondi, have not started yet though work order was issued for the former six months ago..