Ponmar Village Pond (Waterbodies of Chennai - 59)

Ponmar is a rare locality in Chennai with no water scarcity. No wonder why most of the drinking water can companies are located in this village.

The village pond, located in Ponmar junction, was a scenic spot with so many lotus and lily flowers till one year ago. It gave an excellent village experience as it is surrounded by trees and a small village temple. However, the Panchayat started some renovation work in this pond, and from then onwards, the waterbody lost its beauty. We hope the administrative body finishes work soon and the pond is restored to its original glory.

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.