Moovarasampet Pond (Waterbodies of Chennai - 56)

This scenic pond never dries up, you know? Thanks to the local administration for taking adequate steps to preserve this pond from encroachments. However, their efforts have started going to waste recently as garbage and liquor bottles are thrown on the pond's banks.

The pond that covers an area of around 1.5 acres is always full of lotus and lily flowers. It is called Moovarasanpet pond by the locals. It is located in Moovarasanpet, the southern outskirts of Chennai city. The nearest landmark is Gangai Amman Temple.

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.