Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Chikka Kammanahalli

Also called Kammanahalli Govt. Lake, Kammanahalli Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Doddakammanahalli ward, Bengaluru South

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Size
3.23 acresAbout 1.8 football pitches
Rank by size
1145th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Koramangala-Challaghatta
Who looks after it
BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
0% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 0.5% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1893 to 1944, 1946 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1892 to 2026.

  1. 1892

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 1945

    On the survey map

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  3. 1980

    Not on the survey map

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  4. 1984-2021

    Held water in 7 of 38 years

    Water in 2% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

    0% of its water area has since gone dry; 17% is new water

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

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  5. 2017-2018

    In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached

    This census's status marks are often wrong

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  6. 2017-2025

    No one cover holds over half of it 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

    0.5% encroached, polluted, 7.28 acres surveyed

    See source

  8. 2024

    On the state's list of Bengaluru lakes, looked after by BBMP

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  9. 2025-2026

    Mostly floating weed after the monsoon and in the dry season

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 0% open water
    • 83% floating weed
    • 17% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 84% floating weed
    • 16% dry or built
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How big it is

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

Drawn outline
3.23 acres

About 1.8 football pitches

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Land records
5.47 acres

About 3.1 football pitches

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2018 lake survey
7.28 acres

About 4.1 football pitches

See source
End to end
199 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
4 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
Polluted
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What pollutes it, 2018

Sewage & human defecation

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the east and west

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Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18
2 readings
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Every reading
Show every reading

Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18 lake survey

DateWhereWater temperature°CpHConductivityµS/cmDissolved solidsmg/LSuspended solidsmg/LTurbidityNTUDissolved oxygenmg/LCODmg/LBODmg/LTotal phosphateKjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as NTotal coliformMPN/100mLLight transparencycm
2018-01-10Inlet23.17.5677462335.81.14810.250.212.61,600
2018-01-10Outlet247.86714585035.24.24812.220.618.222015
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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached area, 2017
0.25 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

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Encroached by

Private owners and government agencies

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Taken for

House, road

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Where it is encroached

On the south-west, north-east and north-west side

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Dumped in it

Garbage dump

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Other problems noted

Soil Excavation

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Land within 500 m

43% built, 30% trees, 11% crops, 9% shrubs, 6% grass, 0.7% 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
Bommanahalli
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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
Koramangala-Challaghatta

The river basin its water drains to

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Overflows into

Kammanahalli Lake

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Catchment
1.2 km²

The land that drains into it

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Fed by, 2018 survey

Rain & drain fed

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Built parts, 2018 survey

3 inlet drains, 1 overflow weir, no sluice gates, no culverts, no check dams and no islands

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Nearest sewage treatment plant

STP

1.2 km away

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What lives here

Birds recorded
75 species

Most seen: Common Myna, Red-whiskered Bulbul, Green Bee-eater, Black Kite and White-cheeked Barbet.

458 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
76 species

459 records, 2018 to 2024

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Photographed on iNaturalist
1 times

Last seen Aug 2024

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent, free floating and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Agriculture, settlement & vacant land

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 38
Doddakammanahalli

ದೊಡ್ಡಕಮ್ಮನಹಳ್ಳಿ

Bengaluru South corporation, Bangalore South assembly seat

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Village
Kammanahalli

Begur hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

22 (Kammanahalli), 21 (Hommadevanahalli/ Vamadevanahalli)

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Height above sea level
915 m
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Coordinates

12.8486° N, 77.6033° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
173
2018 lake survey
BUBSBGkmn_kr3-1458
Lake Development Authority
LDA263
KGIS tank map
1019
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302864/008
City lake monitoring site
103