Due to the delay, the sixth pump and motor of the Handri-Neeva project was hurriedly transported from Kurnool on September 12 by the chief engineer of the Handri-Neeva project.
It reached the Kalaparru toll gate on the morning of September 13 and reached Pattisam village even as engineers worked round the clock to meet the September 16 deadline. Sources said the superintendent engineer of Pattiseema was told on September 14 that release of water should be achieved on the morrow so that the Godavari-Krishna confluence could be really, and not notionally, achieved on September 16.
On the other hand, the chief engineer of Handri-Neeva is said to have been told that whenever the Chinese shipment reached Pattiseema, the two borrowed pumps would be sent back.It was learnt that the superintendent engineer of Pattiseema as well as the chief engineer of Handri-Neeva were initially reluctant about this make-shift arrangement.
As it turned out, engineers at Pattiseema were not able to fix the Handri-Neeva pumps at the site as the basement sizes and steel fixtures designed for the Chinese pumps were not suited for the local pumps from Handri-Neeva.Despite the Godavari floodwaters not arriving at the confluence point of Ferry on the banks of the Krishna, the Chief Minister went ahead with his notional celebration, and directed that Pattiseema should be operational within 24 hours.
On Friday, minister Umamaheswara Rao again did puja at Pattiseema, switched on a pump and claimed that the prestigious project was now operational.
Within 36 hours of this, the Polavaram right main canal, meant to carry the Pattiseema waters to the Krishna developed a breach due to heavy rains along the streams feeding it.Sources said the breach to the Polavaram canal is no way connected to the Pattiseema waters.
They said it was only due to the pressure mounted on engineers that the incomplete Polavaram right canal was patched up for the confluence function, and therefore was vulnerable to heavy inflows
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