By Our Reporter  The floods of Saturday night had made the fate of the Melamchi Drinking Water Project uncertain. Built-in over 25 years spending nearly 40 billion rupees, the drinking water project has been damaged massively by the flood of Saturday. The earlier flood of June 15 had also caused damage to the project. But this time, it totally destroyed the headwork and the level of the river bed got raised making it impossible to operate the project again. After the damages caused to the project by Jue 15 floods, the authorities who were planning to bring the project into operation by February next year, are now hopeless. They suspect whether the investment made over the years would go waste. Meanwhile, experts who made an aerial on-site observation of the floods and landslides in Melamchi and Helambu areas of Sindhupalchowk district this week have suggested relocating communities in the lower coastal area, pointed out risk in those areas for the next two months. The National Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Authority (NDRRMA) on Sunday conducted an aerial inspection of the Helambu and Melamchi areas of Sindhupalchowk after sudden flash floods Saturday night washed away 17 houses and a bridge at Chanaute. Hydrological, geological and landslide hazard experts have informed that locations like Panchpokhari, Thangpal, Helambu and Melamchi are still at high risk of natural disaster at any time for the next two months.