Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Srigandhakavalu Karabu Katte

Also called Srigandakaval Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Srigandada Kaval ward, Bengaluru West

See it on the map
Size
2.86 acresAbout 1.6 football pitches
Rank by size
1178th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Vrishabhavathi
Who looks after it
BDABangalore Development Authority
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
1% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 0.1% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1870 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1869 to 2026.

  1. 1869

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

    See source

  2. 1980

    Not on the survey map

    See source

  3. 1984-2021

    No open water seen in any year

    Water in 0.6% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

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

    See sourceSee source

  4. 2017-2018

    In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached

    This census's status marks are often wrong

    See source

  5. 2017-2025

    Mostly plants or weed in most years

    Floating weed shows as crops or grass here, not as water

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

    See source

  6. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    0.1% encroached, clean, 6.83 acres surveyed

    See source

  7. 2025-2026

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

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 0% open water
    • 70% floating weed
    • 30% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 0% floating weed
    • 100% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
2.86 acres

About 1.6 football pitches

See source
2018 lake survey
6.83 acres

About 3.9 football pitches

See source
End to end
175 m

The longest straight line across the outline

See source
Deepest point, 2018
3 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
Clean
See source

How much is built over

Built inside the outline
1%

From satellite land cover, 2021

See source
Encroached area, 2017
0.25 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

See source
Encroached by

Sri Amma Bhaghwan Dhyana Mandir and the public

See source
Taken for

Building & road

See source
Where it is encroached

On the north-east side

See source
Dumped in it

Construction debris, garbage & burned wastes

See source
Land within 500 m

46% built, 37% shrubs, 10% trees, 5% crops, 1% grass

From satellite land cover, 2021

See source

Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bangalore Development Authority

BDA

See source
City lake page

Open its page on the city’s lake monitoring site

See source

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Vrishabhavathi

The river basin its water drains to

See source
Overflows into

Mallathahalli Lake

See source
Catchment
0.5 km²

The land that drains into it

See source
Fed by, 2018 survey

Rain & drain

See source
Built parts, 2018 survey

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

See source
Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding

See source
Nearest sewage treatment plant

Mallathahalli Sewage Treatment Plant

1.9 km away, treats 5 million litres a day

See source

What lives here

Birds recorded
46 species

Most seen: Rock Pigeon, Asian Koel, Black Kite, Indian Peafowl and Ashy Prinia.

201 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

See source
All wildlife recorded
46 species

201 records, 2020 to 2025

See source
Photographed on iNaturalist
8 times

6 species, 3 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Emerald Small Carpenter, Plain Orange-tip, Little Egret, Ornamental Tree Trunk Spider and Purple Bush-Bean.

Last seen Aug 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Fish, birds, butterflies and dragonflies

See source
Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent and free floating

See source

Around it

Around it in 2018

Settlement & baren land

See source

Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 27
Srigandada Kaval

ಶ್ರೀಗಂಧದ ಕಾವಲ್

Bengaluru West corporation, Rajarajeshwarinagar assembly seat

See source
Village
Srigandhada kavalu

Yeshwanthpura hobli, Bengaluru North taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

See source
Land survey numbers

15

See source
Height above sea level
885 m
See source
Coordinates

12.9840° N, 77.5006° E

See source

Read more

OpenStreetMap
See source
Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
503
2018 lake survey
BUBNYPsgk_kr6-225
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302801/002
City lake monitoring site
133