Kolkata: Inundation of a work pit from an old drainage line delayed the restoration of damaged high-tension power cables to the airport terminal by over 20 hours. Though the repair location was identified on Thursday evening itself, the process of rejoining the six severed cables could begin only around 8.30pm on Friday after the continuous pumping reduced the water level and the 33KV cables had dried.
\nEngineers from Metro Railway, Airports Authority of India (AAI) and CESC tried to tackle the inundation problem all night. On Friday morning, more heavy-duty suction pumps were deployed to drain the water. \u201cMore than the actual work of rejoining the cables, it was the site preparation that proved challenging. All timelines went haywire due to water incursion,\u201d a CESC official said, adding that the supply to the terminal building is expected to be restored by Saturday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: Inundation of a work pit from an old drainage line delayed the restoration of damaged high-tension power cables to the airport terminal by over 20 hours. Though the repair location was identified on Thursday evening itself, the process of rejoining the six severed cables could begin only around 8.30pm on Friday after the continuous pumping reduced the water level and the 33KV cables had dried. Engineers from Metro Railway, Airports Authority of India (AAI) and CESC tried to tackle the inundation problem all night. On Friday morning, more heavy-duty suction pumps were deployed to drain the water. \u201cMore than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}