Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Mylasandra Buddagana Katte

Kere, a large tank, in Mallasandra (Mylasandra) village, Bengaluru South taluk

See it on the map

Size

1.75 acresSmaller than a football pitch

Rank by size

1282nd largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist

Valley

Koramangala-Challaghatta

Who looks after it

BDABangalore Development Authority

Water quality

Not tested for water quality yet

Built over

0% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 4% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1905 to 1983.

Water seen by satellite each year, up to 0.56 acres

What covers it each year:waterbuilt on or bareplants or weed

1904

1984

1904
Built
As the 2018 lake survey records it
See source
1984-2021
Held water in 6 of 38 years
Water in 3% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024
0% of its water area has since gone dry; 8% is new water
The lake is small for this record, so treat it as rough
See source See source
2017-2025
Mostly built on or bare from 2019
About three in four of these readings are right, so trust what holds for several years
See source
2018
Still there in the 2018 lake survey
4% encroached, dry, 4.72 acres surveyed
See source
2025-2026
Part floating weed, part dry or built after the monsoon; mostly open water in the dry season
The lake is small for these images, so treat the shares as rough
After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025
17% open water
44% floating weed
39% dry or built
Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026
61% open water
9% floating weed
30% dry or built
See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline

1.75 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

2018 lake survey

4.72 acres

About 2.7 football pitches

End to end

143 m

The longest straight line across the outline

Deepest point, 2018

2 m

Kind of lake

Kere, a large tank

How clean the water is

State pollution board

Not tested by the state board

How it looked in 2018

Dry

What pollutes it, 2018

Construction debris

Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18

1 readings

Every reading

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Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18 lake survey

Date	Where	Water temperature°C	Light transparencycm	pH	ConductivityµS/cm	Dissolved solidsmg/L	Suspended solidsmg/L	TurbidityNTU	Dissolved oxygenmg/L	CODmg/L	BODmg/L	Total phosphate	Kjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as N	Total coliformMPN/100mL
2018-01-09		25	100	8.5	411	390	13	8	7.8	16	1.7	0.1	2.8	2

How much is built over

Built inside the outline

0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

Encroached area, 2017

0.59 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

Encroached by

Private owners and farmers

Taken for

Layout & agriculture

Where it is encroached

On the west and east side

Dumped in it

Construction debris

Land within 500 m

28% built, 18% trees, 18% grass, 14% shrubs, 12% crops, 5% water, 4% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

Who looks after it

Looked after by

Bangalore Development Authority

BDA

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley

Koramangala-Challaghatta

The river basin its water drains to

Overflows into

Mylasandra Dodda Agrahara Kere

Catchment

0.1 km²

The land that drains into it

Fed by, 2018 survey

Rain & drain fed

Built parts, 2018 survey

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

Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding

Nearest sewage treatment plant

STP

1.3 km away

What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds

Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

Around it

Around it in 2018

Plantation, layout & vacant land

Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru

Outside the city limits

Village

Mallasandra (Mylasandra)

Begur hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

Land survey numbers

23

Height above sea level

916 m

Coordinates

12.8554° N, 77.6259° E

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Its number in each record

ATREE lake map: 84
2018 lake survey: BUBSBGmyl_kr1-1474
Lake Development Authority: LDA373