Ganapati Nagar Pond (Waterbodies of Chennai - 47)

This pond is located in Ganapati Nagar, a little behind one of the busiest roads of Chennai, Tambaram-Velachery Road in Pallikkaranai. Although it is a vast pond occupying an area of around 1 acre, it remains lesser known.

It appears that the Government has taken steps once to preserve this beautiful circular-shaped pond. Steps to get down to the pond are found in all directions, and the pond's banks are well protected by the concrete walls. Fortunately, the area is not turned into a dump yard and has no encroachment.

Happy travelling.

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.