The Telangana Retired Engineers Association has made several suggestions to the State Government in the wake of unprecedented flood witnessed by Kaddam and Godavari rivers causing threat to the safety of Kaddam project and submergence of two pump houses of Kaleshwaram project.
After a meeting of the association held here on Friday, general secretary of the association M. Shyamprasad Reddy said they had adopted a resolution with some recommendations to the State Government. Their recommendations include construction of safety/protection wall/bund around Kaleshwaram pump houses along the river course and also raising the height of flood banks at the barrages.
They also suggested that the government acquire lands that were submerged upstream of Annaram Barrage every flood season and also to get model studies conducted on the backwater effect of Pranahitha’s confluence with Godavari. They opined that the unprecedented flood in Godavari, higher that the 1986 flood, had led to submergence of the pump houses, particularly due to backwater effect.
