Chennai: Olatter’s lake along the Vandalur-Kambakkam road slowly lost his area, with a temple, a memo merchant page and Tipper truck workshop appeared at the southern tip.
Visits to the lake, spread over 27 hectares, on Wednesday showing that encroachment structure can be permanent if it is not immediately removed.
Residents there said Memo traders were the main offenders, with smoke from the burning scrap swallowing all areas and submitting the main health hazard.
Officials of the State Public Works Department (PWD) said police complaints had been submitted.
Revenue authorities are empowered to issue notification of evictions to wild residents who can be evicted with income assistance and police officers.
The source at the Chengalpet collector’s office said Tahsildhar below, under his jurisdiction of the lake came, had been told about wild residents.
Eviction notifications are issued for all three encroachment and they will soon be expelled, the source added.
Super Auto Forge -a private company located near the water body, they have spent ₹ 34 lakh from the company’s social responsibility (CSR) for the past two years to strengthen the Bund, Development Development.
The company is also muddy and deepens the body of water.
All of this is done in the northern part.
S is a side, the chairman of the company, told toi the second phase of lake protection including fences, the bund on the west side and demarcation of the boundaries by the PWD authorities will complete at least one year.
Some of the lakes have been converted into funeral land.
Now is the responsibility of the PWD authority to decide whether the funeral land must be allowed to continue there or shift to another place.
Since the completion of the work de-sorting, some local migration birds including public cups have begun to come to the water bodies, said activists and residents of the area.
But, they can disappear again if the problem is not immediately resolved, they add.
Olatter’s lake is not the only one who faces such a threat to its existence.
Many water bodies, both in the core city and on the outskirts, have fallen prey development that are not regulated in the form of housing colonies or industrial units and has shrunk drastically.
Many lakes are also contaminated through waste streams that are not treated through illegal connections.
The authorities concerned took the ‘action’ whenever complaints stacked, but not enough, said the residents.