Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Bellihalli Kere

Kere, a large tank, in Kogilu ward, Bengaluru North

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Size
13.2 acresAbout 7.5 football pitches
Rank by size
622nd largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Hebbal
Who looks after it
BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
4% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 5% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1928 to 1954, 1956 to 1963, 1965 to 1977 and 1979 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1927 to 2026.

  1. 1927

    On the survey map

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  2. 1955

    Not on the U.S. Army map

    Compiled from Survey of India maps of 1945-46

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  3. 1964

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

    See source

  4. 1978

    On the survey map

    See source

  5. 1984-2021

    Held water most years

    Water in 16% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

    1% of its water area has since gone dry; 42% is new water

    4 years not counted: the satellite saw under half the lake

    Floating weed looks like dry land to this record, so a weed-covered year can read as dry

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  6. 2017-2025

    Mostly water in most years

    About three in four of these readings are right, so trust what holds for several years

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  7. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    5% encroached, clean, 18.8 acres surveyed

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  8. 2025-2026

    Mostly floating weed after the monsoon and in the dry season

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 0% open water
    • 92% floating weed
    • 8% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 3% open water
    • 96% floating weed
    • 1% dry or built
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How big it is

The records disagree on its size, so each measure is shown.

Drawn outline
13.2 acres

About 7.5 football pitches

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Land records
18.8 acres

About 11 football pitches

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2018 lake survey
18.8 acres

About 11 football pitches

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End to end
339 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
2 m
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Kind of lake
Kere, a large tank
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How clean the water is

State pollution board
Not tested by the state board
How it looked in 2018
Clean
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Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18
1 readings
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Every reading
Show every reading

Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18 lake survey

DateWhereWater temperature°CLight transparencycmpHConductivityµS/cmDissolved solidsmg/LSuspended solidsmg/LTurbidityNTUDissolved oxygenmg/LCODmg/LBODmg/LTotal phosphateKjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as NTotal coliformMPN/100mL
2017-11-1426.6427.33332906519.65.611226.90.11480
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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
4%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached by

Farmers

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Taken for

Plantation

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Where it is encroached

On the north-west side

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Land within 500 m

25% crops, 23% built, 21% trees, 14% shrubs, 9% grass, 9% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

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City work on the lake
To be developed
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City zone
Mahadevapura
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City lake page

Open its page on the city’s lake monitoring site

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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Hebbal

The river basin its water drains to

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Overflows into

Kannuru Kere

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Catchment
1.7 km²

The land that drains into it

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Fed by, 2018 survey

Rainfall

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Built parts, 2018 survey

No inlet drains, no overflow weirs, 1 sluice gate, no culverts, no check dams and no islands

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Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding

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What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent and free floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Complete

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Quarry & plantation

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 21
Kogilu

ಕೋಗಿಲು

Bengaluru North corporation, Byatarayanapura assembly seat

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Village
Bellahalli

Yelahanka hobli, Bengaluru North taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

68

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Height above sea level
908 m
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Coordinates

13.1046° N, 77.6431° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
63
2018 lake survey
BUBNYHbel_kr1-248
Lake Development Authority
LDA042
KGIS tank map
822
City lake monitoring site
49