Keezhkattalai Lake

A few kilometers south of the Chennai airport, off the busy trunk road on a much peaceful radial road the Keezhkattalai Lake was hardly known to even the residents of the sprawling city.The once sprawling Keezhka­t­talai lake is now re­du­ced to a piece of land sandwiched between encroachments.

The lake with pristine bio diversity supporting aquatic life and migratory birds has lost its she­en owing to pollution and unchecked dumping of sa­nd eating into its catchme­nt areas. Suddenly, the world takes focus of this lake and Chennai is all geared up to Clean and Restore the Keezhkattalai Lake and present it as a prototype for other water bodies in the country to be restored.

Keeazhkattalai lake serves as the lake that feeds the Pallikaranai marsh and, it is one of the largest water bodies in the state.

The Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) decided to clean the Keezhkattalai Lake (KZ), However, it was noticed that if restored to its fullest capacity and left to wilderness, Keezhkattalai lake will become the ideal biodiversity hot spot within this urban nerve center. 

This was how the lake was looking before the cleanup by EFI volunteers.

This is how the work of cleaning the lake happens. The volunteers of EFI did a wonderful job in cleaning the lake.

Post the cleaning work done by the EFI volunteers this is how the lake looks.