Chennai: Velachery lake not cleaned for 20 years

For more than two decades now, the Velachery lake hasn’t been cleaned up. The public works department (PWD) has not desilted it nor cleared the garbage nor removed encroachments. Water hyacinth covers most of the surface of the 55acre lake. S Kumararaja of Team Green Velachery told TOI that the lake used to be spread across 250 acres before several government agencies including Tamil Nadu Housing Board, Slum Clearance Board and private builders encroached upon it. The bypass road further destroyed it, he said.

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