Kovilambakkam Village Pond (Waterbodies of Chennai - 50)

On Sunnambu Kulathur High Road in Kovilambakkam, the village tank is located. It is still used by the villagers for bathing and washing. It occupies an area of around 0.2 acres. The surrounding areas are urbanized, but this tank with the trees in the backdrop gives us a typical village feel.

Though it is not maintained by the Government properly, the tank is comparatively neat. However, the path that leads to this pond is full of garbage.

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.