The southern outskirts of Chennai has so many Waterbodies, which are not yet vanished. Only few of them are being maintained properly. The Jamulingeswara temple of Sembakkam near Tambaram has a huge Tank that spreads an area of around 0.5 acres. The history of the temple or tank is not known. But, it should be centuries old. This tank with so much of capacity could improve the groundwater level of the locality to a great extent. But, it is unfortunate, that this tank merely appears like a playground. It's absolutely dry and I am not sure if any attempt has ever been made to restore this tank.

To know more about the temple, click here.

Happy travelling.







Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in Chennai region till 1980s. Today, only a fraction of them exist. And, most of those surviving waterbodies hardly have water and even some of them that  have water had been shrunk badly. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby and lake view roads without any lake in the vicinity. There is a high possibility that even the few waterbodies that we have today might vanish in the near future. I thought of visiting the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.