Lake Restoration Project

Objectives of the lake restoration project
  1. Sensitize the community about the need for natural resource conservation and management to sustain lives and livelihood.
  2. Equip the community by engaging them in field based activities such as workshops, training and restoration initiatives.
  3. Carry out benchmark studies and survey to evaluate the quality of lake and its ecosystem
  4. Improve aesthetics of the lake by creating walkways, fixing benches, gazebos, eco-sanitation and other appropriate structures and basic facilities.
  5. Increase the green cover in and around the lake to bring about positive changes in biodiversity and to maintain the ecological balance.
  6. Enrich and develop wetlands to strengthen the lake ecosystem to support livelihoods.
  7. Improve water-holding capacity of the lake by strengthening the catchment area, de-silting the lake-bed and enhance groundwater recharge.
  8. Documentation and cataloging of various components and activities of lake development for future references.
    Percolation pits- acts as silt traps .
Activities under the lake restoration project
  1. Carry out benchmark studies and survey to evaluate the quality of lake and its ecosystem.
  2. De-silting, widening and dredging of three major rainwater inlet channels to increase the rainwater inflow into the water-body and thereby enhance the accumulation & collection of freshwater in the lake.
  3. Creating rainwater retention ponds and percolation-pits at the mouth of the freshwater feeder drains to increase the water-holding capacity of the lake and enhance the groundwater table.
  4. Re-establishing the lake bio-regions with selected plant species to retain excess / surplus rainwater and strengthen the functioning of the lake. Setting up of Lake management committee and training them to take over the lake post our exit.
  5. Setting up of Lake Management Committee and training them to take over the lake restoration activities after exit by Eco-Watch & Shell.

    6. Preliminary studies carried out by Eco-Watch:

    Rainwater channel

    Percolation pit

    Tree planting along the lake boundary

    Maintenance and monitoring

    The lake management committee meeting