CHENNAI: The water resources department on Friday in a report said it had identified 244 encroachments on the Puzhal lake catchment area and four encroachments in Korattur lake. This comes after TOI published a report showing the corporation put illegal streetlights inside the water bodies in 2018.
WRD officials said a field inspections of Puzhal lake along with revenue officials found the corporation had indiscriminately put streetlights for these encroachments deep inside the water body. “The lights are inside the water body and the encroachers are now creating roads. We will send notices to these residents and the corporation must remove all the lights from Puzhal lake,” said a WRD official.
