Village Tank - Madampakkam (Waterbodies of Chennai - 54)

"It's an ancient temple city. Don't pollute the water body."

The board on the gate of the entrance of this beautiful tank of Madampakkam reads so. Well, the village authorities have taken the necessary steps to protect this waterbody from encroachments and other ways of pollution by building tall walls around it. This has ensured that no one approaches this lesser-known village tank and spoils its beauty.

This tank, which spreads around 0.75 acres, is located at the end of Paduvancheri-Madampakkam Road near Madampakkam lake.

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.