Warangal: Water bodies under KUDA limits to be geo-tagged soon

Warangal: Officials of the Irrigation, Revenue, and Land and Survey departments will survey the area, fix boundaries and also geo-tag water bodies including ponds, tanks, lakes and reservoirs under the Kakatiya Urban Development Authority (KUDA) to prevent illegal occupations soon. While there are 282 water bodies in GWMC limits, nearly 1,000 water bodies including three […]

Warangal: Officials of the Irrigation, Revenue, and Land and Survey departments will survey the area, fix boundaries and also geo-tag water bodies including ponds, tanks, lakes and reservoirs under the Kakatiya Urban Development Authority (KUDA) to prevent illegal occupations soon. While there are 282 water bodies in GWMC limits, nearly 1,000 water bodies including three summer storage tanks- Bhadrakali, Waddepally and Dharmasagar reservoir- are under the KUDA limits.

Some of them are facing threat of encroachments by land sharks, some are getting polluted due to release of sullage from households and factories. “Keeping this in view, the State government decided to protect the water bodies by appointing the Lake Protection Committee (LPC),” former professor of NITW M Panduranga Rao told ‘Telangana Today’. He is also a member of the 14-member committee announced in April 2018. Though the committee is claimed to have taken steps for the protection of the water bodies, it is under flak for its failure to meet on the prescribed time.

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Society for Public Welfare and Initiative founder president Dr Suresh Devath said that the LPC had done nothing concrete for the protection of the lakes. “Illegal occupation of the tanks and pollution in the water bodies are going unchecked,” Suresh added. Meanwhile, the officials of the Irrigation department to demarcate and geo-tag the tanks like Chinna Waddepally, Bhadrakali, Bondivagu Nala, Kota Cheruvu and Waddepally lake, and create a buffer zone to prevent encroachments. The authorities have also decided not remove the structures and others that cause pollution in the summer storage tanks like Bhadrakali, Waddepally and Dharmasagar catchment areas by preventing pollutants from entering the tanks from the catchment area.

Authorities have also been directed not to allow new quarrying in the Devanur area as the reserve forest area is a major urban living space. The LPC had also decided to set up falling shutters to prevent the sullage into the Bhadrakali as well as the Waddepally Lakes in the city so as to keep them clean. As a part of this, the committee has decided to set up falling shutters to prevent the sullage from the side of the Bondivaagu nala besides constructing a storm water drain to check the inundation of the low-lying areas by the Bondivaagu nala during the rainy season. “If the Bondivaagu nala flows above the level of the FTL, the falling shutters will automatically let in the flood waters,” Prof Panduranga Rao added.

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