{"id":129942,"date":"2026-10-21T13:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=129942"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:00:14","slug":"puzhal-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/puzhal-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzhal Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Puzhal Lake Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bodies of two 14-year-old schoolboys who drowned in Puzhal Lake near Murugambedu were recovered recently. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Puzhal Lake<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puzhal Lake, also known as <\/span><b>Red Hills Lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a <\/span><b>manmade freshwater lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in Red Hills, Thiruvallur district, <\/span><b>Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>built <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>19th century,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during the<\/span><b> British Period.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span><b> one of the three main rain-fed reservoirs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from where water is being drawn to be supplied in the city of<\/span><b> Chennai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>other two being<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Chembarambakkam Lake<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Porur Lake.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s like a giant natural storage tank that collects rainwater and water from other sources.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can hold a huge amount of water, about 3300 million cubic feet.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This water is then treated and sent through pipes to homes and businesses across the city.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the lake, there is a tower esteemed as <\/span><b>Jone Tower,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is used to<\/span><b> calculate the depth of the water level in the lake.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This tower was built in the year 1881 and is the main attraction of the lake.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides critical <\/span><b>refuge for resident waterbirds and long-distance migratory avifauna.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During <\/span><b>autumn and winter, trans-continental migrants <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arrive across the Central Asian Flyway (CAF), seeking open water and abundant foraging grounds.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/chennai\/bodies-of-two-school-students-recovered-from-puzhal-lake\/article71604508.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puzhal Lake is a manmade freshwater lake located in Red Hills, Thiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu. 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