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Unchecked urbanisation keeps choking Bengaluru’s lakes—Saul Kere shows biodiversity loss in plain sight. citizenmatters.in/bengalurus… @gangadharanbv @SandhyaTBhat @friendsoflakes_ @mapsasblr
Paradise lost?
Sowl kere - a biodiverse lake of 62 acres is facing rampant sewage inflow for years. @GBAChiefComm @bwssbchairman
The system threw up it's hands silently all these years only now to justify...
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@Chairman_KSPCB
How were these large residential and commercial units sanctioned without sewage treatment facilities and ugd connection?
And how can they keep pumping their untreated stinking sewage day in and day out into a thriving lake for years without a consequence?
Lakes are meant for groundwater recharge, not for treating sewage.
NGT rules clearly state that such constructions or laying sewerage pipes inside lakes territory is not permitted.
@bwssbchairman
Please find suitable land outside lake boundary for the STP.
Leave the lake alone.
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A weekend plog at Kaikondrahalli lake by @IndianPloggers . About 30 of us spent 90 minutes and cleared 8 sacks of trash from the lake bed. Our lakes our responsibility #nammabengaluru @mapsasblr @KasaMuktha @GBA_office @SwachhBharatGov @comm_blr_south
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Can gba solve the issue of sewage entry, garbage dumping and burning at Bengaluru lakes?
This is Sowl kere, a stones throw from Ecospace, on a non-rainy day.
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@GBAChiefComm
@siddaramaiah
@DKShivakumar
Replying to @AdarshBlr
@AdarshBlr Adarsh Lakefront channeling waste water into sowlkere for the last 4+ yrs through multiple inlets, despite being flagged multiple times.
@Chairman_KSPCB @karnatakakspcb @BBMPCOMM
We handed over the cycles sponsored by @SoftwareAG to the guards deployed at kaikondrahalli, sowl kere and kasavanahalli lakes.
The cycles help them commute to the lake everyday as well as in doing the rounds as all 3 lakes have ~2km pathway.
*Kalyani or Kalavani?*
Kaikondrahalli kere’s Kalyani waits for divine intervention every year for a clean up. The BBMP ward officials clean it up not more than 10days before Ganesh Chaturthi with all promise of cleaning it immediately after.
A year has gone by and the next Ganesh Chaturthi is looming large on the horizon. No sign of any cleanup yet. Who can we hold accountable when SWM contractors have not been paid for 3 years and all AEEs are pulled into election duty!
Dec-9, Visit to Kaikondrahalli lake and Sowl kere by Joint commissioner Mahadevpura, joined by BWSSB projects AEE, BBMP zonal AEE, BBMP Lakes AEE and Bescom representatives for a survey.
@kaikhallilake @kdevforum
We have requested BWSSB and BBMP lakes dept to collaborate and execute the much delayed Kaikondrahalli diversion drain and BWSSB UGD project together. Hopefully execution of this project will remove sewage from the entire lake chain of Kasavanahalli, Kaikondrahalli lake...












