Sources from Ooty stated that the Nilgiris district administration has taken steps to desilt the sprawling lake spread over 65 acres here, a popular tourist attraction for boat rides and tourism fun, to slowly help it become a fresh water lake in future.  Meanwhile it is a known fact that this near two century year’s old famed lake is pool of mixture of drainage and sewage as over the centuries, unplanned development and discharge of sewage into the lake had affected its ecology.



Furthermore the Kodappamund channel that traverses the town and drains into the lake carrying the sewage and other wastes is the major culprit that vitiates the aqua-quality of this lake. Meanwhile it is almost a dead-lake, only boat rides and related tourism activities brings some revenue to the government. Reportedly Ms. J. Innocent Divya, collector of Nilgiris, said that now plans have been drawn to drain the water in the lake to the desired depth and extent, to take up the desilting works in the next couple of months.

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Moreover Mr. N. Sadiq Ali, founder of Wildlife and Nature Conservation Trust, here called for setting up a ‘Lake Conservation and Development Authority(LCDA)’ to manage the Ooty lake as well as other lakes such as Sandhinallah and Pykara, across the Nilgiris.


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