Man-made islands for migratory birds, boating facility and tiled walking track for visitors in the twin lakes - Kazhinjur and Dharapadavedu — near Katpadi town in Vellore will be ready by May next year.
Officials of the Water Resources Department (WRD) which maintains the twin irrigation tanks said that at present, more than 45% of the rejuvenation work of the waterbodies have been completed.
With the onset of northeast monsoon, the work might be slowed as the increase of groundwater level in its vicinity will result in water seepage into the lakes. This will affect the on-going desilting and deepening of the waterbodies. “We have fast tracked the work to complete as much as we can before heavy rains in December. The twin lakes help at least villages in its 2 km radius to recharge groundwater,” R. Ramkumar, Assistant Engineer (AE), PWD (Katpadi), told The Hindu.
