Kovilambakkam Temple Tank (Waterbodies of Chennai - 48)

1.5 acres - that is the area occupied by this huge tank once. It was such a vast waterbody once. This was originally a village tank of Kovilambakkam. After the Shiva Vishnu temple's construction on its bank a few years ago, this is referred to as the temple tank.

Though boundary walls were built around the tank a few years ago, the maintenance is not that great. The tank has already shrunk to half of its original size.

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.