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Harshini performance perungudi lake festival feb 12 2017
Perungudi Lake (Tamil: பெருங்குடி ஏரி) is a 50-acre water body located near Chennai's IT corridor, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, India. It is one of the few protected lakes of Chennai, fully fenced with compound wall and pathways laid on its east and south side for walkers.
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- Harshini performance perungudi lake festival feb 12 2017
- Map of Perungudi Lake Vijayendra Nagar Perungudi Chennai Tamil Nadu 600096
- Citizens voice chennai residents on a mission to save perungudi lake
- 2015 flooding and reexamination
- References
Map of Perungudi Lake, Vijayendra Nagar, Perungudi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600096
In the past, the lake was a major source of water for irrigation to its neighborhood agricultural lands. Presently it is still catering to the drinking water needs of few colonies surrounding the lake, and holds the ground water levels. Excess rain later flows into the lake through storm water channels from the nearby residential areas.
Perungudi lake is connected with Pallikaranai wetland through marsh lands spreading across Perungudi/Velachery/Pallikaranai.
Prominent communities near by include Kurinji Nagar, Kamaraj Nagar, Lake view apartment (Ramana building), Green Acres to name a few.
Citizens voice chennai residents on a mission to save perungudi lake
2015 flooding and reexamination
This lake reached its full capacity during the cloudburst that hit Chennai in December 2015. Prior to that not even 25% of water was retained by the lake due to poor maintenance of water inlets and encroachments. The beauty of the lake caught the attention of its nearby residents and motivated them to start a people's forum to protect the lake from pollution, abuse, encroachments, sewage water letdown, defecation, and water theft. From sprucing up the lake to hold a Lake Festival on January 26th of 2016, like-minded individuals from nearby 15 residential association joined hands together for the cause of protecting the lake as the Perungudi Lake Area Neighbourhood.