Water resources authorities will start flushing operations at the Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage from November 2 to 4. Executive engineer Gangumalla Srinivas said the work aims to clear silt deposited during floods. This process will improve canal inflows and storage capacity across the western, central, and eastern delta regions soon.
The water resources authorities of the Godavari headworks division are to take up flushing operations to scour sluices of Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage to clear silt after the monsoon period from November 2 to 4.
Godvari headworks executive engineer Gangumalla Srinivas notified the proposed conduct of flushing operations to the scour sluices to clear the silt deposited during the floods in the approach channels of the Godavari River to improve the inflows to the canals and to improve the storage capacity of the barrage.
Accordingly, the flushing operation of scour sluices in western delta to be taken up on November 2, in the central delta on November 3 and in the eastern delta on November 4.