Trial run of Purushottapatnam Lift Scheme stage II begins
- | Wednesday | 22nd November, 2017
Having completed trial run of the second stage of the Purushottapatnam Lift Scheme on the Godavari, the stage is set for pumping water into the Yeleru reservoir, the main stay of industrial and domestic supply to the city. It will improve the level of Yeleru reservoir enabling flow by gravity and preventing resorting to pumping from the dead storage. The Purushottapatnam Lift Scheme on the Left Main Canal of the Polavaram project is being executed at a cost of ?1600 crore. One of the pumps was run on trial basis through a pipeline to the reservoir on Monday, it was learnt. The 13 km stretch is covered by two pipelines to carry the water lifted by the eight pumps once the second stage of the scheme is fullly operational.
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