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Sunset over Red Hills Lake - Chennai, India
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The Red Hills Lake,also called Puzhal Lake (Tamil: புழல் ஏரி) is located in Ponneri Taluk of Thiruvallur district, Tamilnadu, South India . It is one of the two rain-fed reservoirs from where water is drawn for supply to Chennai City, the other one being the Chembarambakkam Lake.
Redhills lake:The other name of this lake in Tamil is POZHAL YERI; Previously this was used as a Irrigation lake. During the British Rule, it was utilised as a Military Camp. That is why Pozhal Town is also expressed as Camp.This lake was used as an Airport for Water plans for to make a landing and takeoff. There was a concrete ramp to bring the floating crafts and vessals to the then Workshop and the remains can be seen.There was a big Bangalow for the Military personals with Wind mill pump house, sump,overhead tank,a small swimming pool, Tennis court and a mini Theatre for the military use.In order to feed the water plans, there were few huge M.S.tanks for oil storage on the earthern bunds of this lake.For this heavy movement of vehicles, the earthern bunds are enforced with concrete paths. The lake and its water was made to quench the thirst of Chennaities right from the year1868. This lake gets it s supply from Poondi Reservoir and the Cholavaram Lake, through its Upper and Lower Supply Channals.Thus the irrigation utility was stopped. Now a days Poondi Reservoir and Sembaramapkkam Lakes interlinked to get water from Kandaleru (Telugu Ganga Project)and at present ,the Redhills Lake is made to fill on both sides apart from the rain water from the Catchment areas.Its water spreading area is around 7.5KMs and with much storage capacity, when compared Poondi and Cholavaram Lakes.
Acknowledgement / Source : wikimapia.org/141440/Red-Hills-Lake
The full capacity of the lake is 3,300 million ft³ (93 million m³).
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Sunset over Red Hills Lake - Chennai, India
REPOSTED
The Red Hills Lake,also called Puzhal Lake (Tamil: புழல் ஏரி) is located in Ponneri Taluk of Thiruvallur district, Tamilnadu, South India . It is one of the two rain-fed reservoirs from where water is drawn for supply to Chennai City, the other one being the Chembarambakkam Lake.
Redhills lake:The other name of this lake in Tamil is POZHAL YERI; Previously this was used as a Irrigation lake. During the British Rule, it was utilised as a Military Camp. That is why Pozhal Town is also expressed as Camp.This lake was used as an Airport for Water plans for to make a landing and takeoff. There was a concrete ramp to bring the floating crafts and vessals to the then Workshop and the remains can be seen.There was a big Bangalow for the Military personals with Wind mill pump house, sump,overhead tank,a small swimming pool, Tennis court and a mini Theatre for the military use.In order to feed the water plans, there were few huge M.S.tanks for oil storage on the earthern bunds of this lake.For this heavy movement of vehicles, the earthern bunds are enforced with concrete paths. The lake and its water was made to quench the thirst of Chennaities right from the year1868. This lake gets it s supply from Poondi Reservoir and the Cholavaram Lake, through its Upper and Lower Supply Channals.Thus the irrigation utility was stopped. Now a days Poondi Reservoir and Sembaramapkkam Lakes interlinked to get water from Kandaleru (Telugu Ganga Project)and at present ,the Redhills Lake is made to fill on both sides apart from the rain water from the Catchment areas.Its water spreading area is around 7.5KMs and with much storage capacity, when compared Poondi and Cholavaram Lakes.
Acknowledgement / Source : wikimapia.org/141440/Red-Hills-Lake
The full capacity of the lake is 3,300 million ft³ (93 million m³).