Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Choodasandra Govt Lake

Also called Choodasandra Govt Lake-3, Choodasandra Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Choodasandra village, Anekal taluk

See it on the map
Size
10.4 acresAbout 5.9 football pitches
Rank by size
731st largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Koramangala-Challaghatta
Who looks after it
KFDKarnataka Forest Department
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
0% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 5% encroached.
Campaign
Residents are organising here

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1959 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1958 to 2026.

  1. 1958

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 1980

    On the survey map

    See source

  3. 1984-2021

    Held water until 2018

    Water in 7% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

    0% of its water area has since gone dry; 61% 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

    See sourceSee source

  4. 2017-2025

    Mostly built on or bare from 2023

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

    See source

  5. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    5% encroached, polluted, 20.4 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 2025-2026

    Mostly floating weed after the monsoon; mostly dry or built in the dry season

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 20% open water
    • 70% floating weed
    • 9% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 17% open water
    • 0.6% floating weed
    • 83% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
10.4 acres

About 5.9 football pitches

See source
2018 lake survey
20.4 acres

About 12 football pitches

See source
End to end
341 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
2 m
See source
Kind of lake
Kere, a large tank
See source

How clean the water is

State pollution board
Not tested by the state board
How it looked in 2018
Polluted
See source
What pollutes it, 2018

Road & agriculture runoff

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the south and north-west

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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

See source
Encroached area, 2017
0.21 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

See source
Encroached by

Farmers

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Taken for

Agriculture land

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Where it is encroached

On the south-west side

See source
Dumped in it

Garbage dump & construction debris

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Other problems noted

Soil excavation

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Land within 500 m

55% built, 21% trees, 11% crops, 6% grass, 6% shrubs, 2% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

See source

Who looks after it

Looked after by
Karnataka Forest Department

KFD

See source
Campaign pages
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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Koramangala-Challaghatta

The river basin its water drains to

See source
Overflows into

Govt. Vaddakere

See source
Catchment
0.8 km²

The land that drains into it

See source
Fed by, 2018 survey

Rainfall

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Built parts, 2018 survey

3 inlet drains, no overflow weirs, 1 sluice gate, 1 culvert, no check dams and no islands

See source

What lives here

Birds recorded
78 species

Most seen: Ashy Prinia, Spotted Dove, Rock Pigeon, Common Myna and Indian Pond-Heron.

733 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

See source
All wildlife recorded
80 species

736 records, 2022 to 2024

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Photographed on iNaturalist
4 times

3 species, 2 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Chequered Keelback, Common Paddy Field Frog and Ropalidia marginata.

Last seen Mar 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Submerged and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

See source

Around it

Around it in 2018

Layout, houses & plantation

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru
Outside the city limits
See source
Village
Choodasandra

Sarjapura hobli, Anekal taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

See source
Land survey numbers

45

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Height above sea level
904 m
See source
Coordinates

12.8870° N, 77.6785° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
89
2018 lake survey
BUAKSPcho_kr4-933
Lake Development Authority
LDA104