The stream's bed is made of concrete, and hundreds of thousands of tons of water are artificially purified and pumped into it every day, while taxpayer-funded maintenance costs have long exceeded original estimates.
The organisation is a byword for late-arriving and expensive flops.The cost of developing a heavy tank, the Arjun, exceeded the original estimates by 20 times.
The amount by which officials expect to exceed those original estimates won't be known until a future meeting on the status of the project.
Spending on equipment and software fell 2.6percentt, exceeding the original estimate of 2.1percentt, but the decline was not quite as steep as the fall of 3.3percentt in the previous quarter.
On 21 March the Embassy predicted there would be 3,600 evacuees, far exceeding the original estimate of approximately 400.
While the initial duration of the NEESPI research program was estimated to be 10-12 years, its momentum has exceeded original expectations.
In one case, a woman's bill exceeded the original estimated expenditure by £40,000 because the firm "had neither sought to challenge [her] approach nor inform her of the mounting costs".
After vigorous debate, the question of the timing of "Overlord" was eventually left open, but it was agreed that the strength of the assault force should exceed the original estimate by 25 percent, that the cross-Channel landing should be supported by a landing in southern France, and that a U.S. officer should be in command of "Overlord".
We exceeded the original estimate by about 25%." The house is now worth nearly 10 times what Davis paid for it a dozen years ago.
But a NASA inspector-general's report released on 10 September severely criticized the program for exceeding its original cost estimate by 50% and suggested the agency gather the data using existing satellites.
The published expense estimates adjusted original estimates by $51 million.
