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VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh government is awaiting a nod from the Central Water Commission to go ahead with its dewatering plans and resume works on the scoured portion of the diaphragm wall of the Polavaram irrigation project at Polavaram in Eluru district. Water resources authorities are facing the biggest challenge of dewatering nearly 450 acres of work area located between …

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Vijayawada: Attempts by the water resources department to continue the works of Polavaram project’s diaphragm wall even during the Godavari floods proved futile. The Polavaram project authorities planned to avoid any disruption to the ongoing works at the D-wall so as to expedite the completion of the project and set up the dewatering equipment with high capacity motors and even …

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Alappuzha: Fear of yet another flood has gripped remotest R. Block of 24 families in Kuttanad as authorities have failed to begin pumping out water. As part of the project, they built outer bunds and 21 pump sets for dewatering, and it continued to protect the land with periodical maintenance till 2013. Sheela Panicker, principal agriculture officer here, said that …