HYDRAA and Stakeholders Brainstorm over Lake Rejuvenation
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: HYDRAA commissioner A. V. Ranganath on Friday organised a brainstorming session involving various stakeholders with a focus on the fundamental points of identifying a lake, rules governing patta land, on how the full tank level of a water body is to be determined. Officials said that the lake’s maximum water level, where there is no tampering or reduction of the surplus levels or sluice levels or other structures of the lake will be considered as FTL. Ranganath said that old FTL maps, tank memoirs, Survey of India topology sheets, cadastral maps and satellite images would be used to determine the lake and its FTL and buffer zones. For lakes where weirs or sluice gates don't exist but surplus water pipelines are in place, the level from which water starts to pour out shall be considered as FTL, and if the surplus water goes out of the tank onto the natural ground, then the natural ground's levels must be taken as FTL.