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The Amaravati Development Corporation (ADC) has directed officials to instantly region an obstruction erected adjacent the Undavalli pumping presumption to forestall disruption successful h2o travel linked to the Krishna stream and Kondaveeti Vagu.
ADC Chairperson and Managing Director D. Lakshmi Parthasarathy issued the instructions to engineering officials aft reviewing the concern astatine the pumping presumption connected Saturday (May 30, 2026). The impermanent bund had been acceptable up by Irrigation Department authorities during repair works astatine the pumping presumption to forestall Kondaveeti Vagu h2o from entering the intake pond, according to officials.
However, ADC officials said leakage from sluice gates astatine the irrigation caput regulator and the obstruction resulted successful an antithetic reverse travel of h2o from the Krishna stream into the Penumaka reservoir, wherever improvement works are underway. ADC Chief Engineer B. Narasimha Murthy explained that water, which would usually drain into the Buckingham Canal done Kondaveeti Vagu, was stagnating owed to the bund.
Taking superior enactment of the issue, the ADC CMD spoke to Irrigation Department officials and instructed them to region the obstruction immediately.
She besides inspected h2o inflows into the Penumaka reservoir and directed officials to guarantee that bridges nether operation crossed Kondaveeti Vagu and Palavagu bash not hinder h2o travel during the rainy season. Officials were further instructed to deepen the diversion transmission astatine Rayapudi adjacent Palavagu.
