The state-of-the-art underground pump house of the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project at Laxmipur in Ramadugu mandal of Karimnagar district in Telangana, now named as Gayatri pump house is ready for commissioning with the commencement of experimental wet run process.
The pump house has motors of 139 MW capacity each and will be commissioned, by Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on 14 August 2019. The government intends to lift one tmc ft of water every day in the follwoing months and take it to Mid Manair reservoir as supplementation to the existing ayacut under the reservoir, four motors will be enough to lift the required quantity.
The experimental wet run process will be conducted for all seven motors meant to lift two tmc ft water a day. There is a provision for installing another four motors in the pump house to meet the requirement to lift one more tmc ft of water every day during the flood season.
The project engineers in association with those of the work agency, Megha Engineering, and equipment suppliers such as Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) and a few multinationals have taken up the test wet run process late on 11 August 2019 and continued it on 12 August 2019 too.
Considered as the core of project, Godavari water reaching the pump house at Laxmipur through Medigadda, Annaram, Sundilla and Yellampally barrages and Nandi Medaram pump house be lifted for a height of 117 mtr before delivering it into the 5.76 km gravity canal before joining the flood flow canal (FFC) of Sriramsagar project.
From FFC, it will reach Mid Manair reservoir to complete the Link-II of the project. The three pump houses linked to Medigadda, Annaram and Sundilla barrages have already been commissioned and were put in operation to lift water into Yellampally barrage.