Chennai Valasaravakkam plot to transform into lake and eco park

A once-slushy, garbage-ridden four-acre plot in Valasaravakkam is now a sprawling lake and will soon be transformed into an eco-park offering a leisure experience to people. Valasaravakkam and Porur neighbourhoods, with more than 5 lakh residents, faced constant flooding, with knee-deep water near metro rail work sites. This caused snarls on the busy Porur-Vadapalani stretch regularly. Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) found a fix for the civic issue by transforming an abandoned private land into a three-acre pond last month. It is now brimming with 1.5 million cubic feet of water. Located just 200 metres away Arcot Road on First Main Road in Valasaravakkam, the pond will soon be converted into an eco-park at a cost of 5 crore. The Subramania Venkateshara Swamy pond has multiple tree islands for birds and an elevated bund to keep encroachers away. Residents demanded the construction of boundary walls at the western end of the pond. "The pond does not have boundary walls. People throw garbage from the balconies of houses, and in abandoned corners, and deploy a watchman," said K Sivasankaran, a resident of Sairram Nagar.
 

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