Built-over lakes return to haunt prime areas of Hyderabad

Haydarabad’s lakes may have disappeared in the last century, but natural valleys remain. And on Monday evening, the valleys took their way back. In a two -hour period, the center of the city’s about 10 centimeters of rainfall – Jubilee Hills (12.4 cm), Yousufguda (11.7 cm), Srinagar Colony (10.6 cm) and Khairatabad (9.9 cm) – Rain water rose on old drainage routes.

In Punjaput (534 meters above the average sea level) and Ameerpet (537 meters above the average sea level), the nature of nature against the raped land is filled with water with the full power of its return.

“Ameerpet Sri Chaitania to Khairatabad usually takes about 25 minutes on the main road. Due to the flood, Jubilee Hills, Kbr Park, and now I’m stuck, Srin, Srinivas Naidu said on Monday. “Leaving them may take another hour,” he said about the two children caught in traffic congestion in Autorickshaw.

“The point where Maitrivanam stood today was once a small water body and well with a well. There were other lakes and water bodies flowing towards Panjagutta.

“Everywhere you saw the Maisamma Temple on one floor, there was once a lake. And these areas are now flooded. There is a temple in Jalagam Vengal Rao Park.

In the meantime, despite the 12 centimeters of rain in the region, Enugulu Kunta Lake or Jvr Park Lake was not filled on Tuesday morning. In the middle of the lake, large lake sediment mound smells.

In Yousufguda, a lake existing in the 60s was transformed into Krishna Kanth Park, the other was transformed into police territory and another lake to the National Micro, Small and Medium Industries Institute. If the water, carrying capacity, which these lakes may have been protected, was not destroyed, he left Ameerpet and Panjagutta on Monday.

After a heavy rain on Tuesday, a part of the concrete cover on a drainage channel caused a water tanker after led to Banjara Hills in Haydarabad. | Photo Loan: Nagara Gopal

Ameerpet’s 1985 satellite image shows four interconnected lakes that once flowed to Hussainsagar. Today, these water bodies are buried under concrete ground signs – Aditya Trade Center, Ameerpet Metro Station, a playground on Dharam Karam Road, and most importantly, the Swarna Jayanti complex, which contains the Offices of Haydarabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) offices. The construction of a city planning organ on a lake underlines Haydarabad’s urban paradox. The HMDA complex has a slight memory of the past in the form of a temple of Bangaru Maisamma in its facilities.