Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Thalagattapura Lake

ತಲಘಟ್ಟಪುರ ಕೆರೆ

Also called Gowdarakere, Thalaghattapura Lake

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

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Size

12.0 acresAbout 6.8 football pitches

Rank by size

666th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist

Valley

Suvarnamukhi

Who looks after it

BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

Water quality

Not tested for water quality yet

Built over

0.7% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 15% encroached.

Campaign

Residents are organising here

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1904 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

Water seen by satellite each year, up to 7.97 acres. Grey: years it saw under half the lake

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

1903

1980

1984

1903
Built
As the 2018 lake survey records it
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1980
On the survey map
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1984-2021
Held water most years
Water in 8% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024
0% of its water area has since gone dry; 48% is new water
4 years not counted: the satellite saw under half the lake
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2017-2018
In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached
This census's status marks are often wrong
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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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2018
Still there in the 2018 lake survey
15% encroached, polluted, 19.4 acres surveyed
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2024
On the state's list of Bengaluru lakes, looked after by BBMP
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2025-2026
Mostly open water after the monsoon and in the dry season
After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025
70% open water
16% floating weed
14% dry or built
Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026
58% open water
8% floating weed
35% dry or built
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How big it is

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

Drawn outline

12.0 acres

About 6.8 football pitches

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2018 lake survey

19.4 acres

About 11 football pitches

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End to end

346 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018

3 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 north

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Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18

2 readings

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Every reading

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Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18 lake survey

Date	Where	Water temperature°C	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
2018-02-06	Inlet	20.5	7	1,102	754	5	9.2	1.12	64	8.91	1.3	28	1,600
2018-02-06	Outlet	25.9	6.9	1,029	704	2	12.1	1.68	32	3.86	1.2	14	900

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How much is built over

Built inside the outline

0.7%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached area, 2017

2.73 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

Houses & layout

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Where it is encroached

On the south-east and south-west side

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Dumped in it

Garbage waste

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Who looks after it

Looked after by

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

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City lake page

Open its page on the city’s lake monitoring site

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Campaign pages

facebook.com

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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley

Suvarnamukhi

The river basin its water drains to

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Overflows into

O.B.Chudanahalli Lake

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Catchment

2.2 km²

The land that drains into it

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Fed by, 2018 survey

Rainfall, & drain

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Built parts, 2018 survey

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

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What lives here

Birds recorded

116 species

Most seen: Black Kite, Red-wattled Lapwing, Ashy Prinia, Indian Pond-Heron and Eurasian Coot.

1,653 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded

117 species

1,654 records, 2013 to 2024

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Threatened species seen here

Woolly-necked Stork near threatened
River Tern vulnerable

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Photographed on iNaturalist

30 times

19 species, 27 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Lesser Whistling-Duck, Garganey, Common Snipe, Pin-tailed Snipe and Gray-headed Swamphen.

Last seen Aug 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent, submerged and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Settlement, layout, vacant land & school

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Surveyor's note, 2018

Mr. Vinaya Kumar, IFS (3.11.16)

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Photos

Where it is

Ward 52

Talagattapura

ತಲಘಟ್ಟಪುರ

Bengaluru South corporation, Yeshwanthapura assembly seat

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Village

Talaghattapura

Uttarahalli hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

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Height above sea level

876 m

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Coordinates

12.8668° N, 77.5314° E

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OpenStreetMap

Open it on OpenStreetMap

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Its number in each record

ATREE lake map: 13
2018 lake survey: BUBSUHtlg_kr1-1364
Lake Development Authority: LDA171
KGIS tank map: 1184
Water bodies census: 2/12/002/276600/1302870/011
City lake monitoring site: 115

Through the years

How big it is

How clean the water is

How much is built over

Who looks after it

Where its water comes from and goes

What lives here

Around it

Photos

Where it is

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