Dhatreeswarar Temple Tank (Waterbodies of Chennai - 39)

Around 30 km from Chennai, Tirumanam is a remote and quiet village. It has a 13th-century Pandya-era temple for Lord Shiva, which is called Dhatreeswarar temple. The temple has a beautiful pond that occupies an area of around 1.8 acres. Even though the pond has water and is maintained well, the villagers are not bothered about the surrounding. The garbage is found littered in all the lanes around this tank.

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Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in the Chennai region till the 1980s. Today, only a fraction of them exist. And most of those surviving waterbodies hardly have water, and even some of them that have water have been poorly shrunk. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby and lake-view roads without lakes. There is a high possibility that even the few waterbodies we have today might vanish soon. I decided to visit the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.

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