Analyze and highlight Bellandur lake issues

psaram42 - 8-SEP-2009

This is a project to understand and highlight Bellandur Lake's survival issues. Lake bed, wet land encorachment, discharge of sewerage into the lake, dumping of construction debris on the lake shores, eating into the channel that takes water down to Varthur lake are some of the issues threatening Bellandur lake.

Bellandur lake & BWSSB Meeting - questionnaire

Neha_Dar - 12-JUL-2009

Meeting details of Bellandur lake Maintenance Event.

psaram42 - 4-JUL-2009

The meeting started at 10AM sharp on 04July 2009 at the scheduled place. It was attended by Neeraj, Megha, Neha Usha Kiran, and Prakash.

Bellandur Lake Maintenance

psaram42 - 1-JUL-2009

  The residents of Apartment complexes in and around Belandur Lake area are concerned about the upkeep of the Lake. The issues are avoidance of health hazards, Eco enhancement including environment protection. These residents are dependent on Bore wells for there drinking water needs. 

Sanitary Drainage System the bane of Bangalore Lakes

psaram42 - 21-JUN-2009

 The Sanitary Drainage System in a Mega city like Bombay, and our own Bangalore for an instance, is a source of persistent annoyance leading to exasperation.

Half hearted storm water drain cleaning in Bellandur ?

minus43 - 20-JUN-2009

Recently the BBMP has taken up storm water drain cleaning in preparation for the monsoon. However it seems like they are going a half hearted job. A strech of drain has been cleaned on Bellandur Outer Ring Road and the silt has been left right besides the drain. Over the next week we will track to see if BBMP clears up the dumped silt.

Why is the Bellandur Lake Dead?

psaram42 - 16-JUN-2009

There are 20 storms cum sewage water inlets feeding polluted water into the Bellandur Lake in total. Out of this only one inlet namely Koramangala Challaghatta (KC) valley inlet water is being treated before discharging into the Lake.

Importance of Bellandur Lake in the ecosystem of Bangalore

psaram42 - 7-JUN-2009

Bellandur Lake is the biggest water body in Bangalore. In our metro we are depending heavily water bodies as wet lands in Nitrogen cycling. Bellandur Lake thus plays an important role in this cycle as a natural wetland. The three main streams of sewage are

The Bellandur Lake Photo Stream

psaram42 - 31-MAY-2009

 Bellandur Lake is a lake on the shores of which Bellandur village is situated.

The changing face of Bengalooru lakes over a 9 year period - a study

psaram42 - 16-MAY-2009

 The latest version of Google earth has introduced a new feature of viewing the earth at different periods of time, starting with the year 2000. This allows us to see the changes on any part of the earth over a given period of time starting with the year 2000. I had listed in my earlier blog entry about 48 lakes as on May 15, 2009.