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Mumbai: Official inspection confirms water inlets blocked at DPS Flamingo lake
Updated On: 31 May, 2024 08:31 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
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Illegal bund at DPS lake that is blocking water flow
An official inspection has confirmed that a 600-metre bund in the eco-sensitive area has blocked free water flow to the 30-acre DPS Flamingo Lake at Nerul in Navi Mumbai. The inspection was conducted on Wednesday at the instance of the Bombay High Court-appointed Mangrove Protection and Conservation Committee following a complaint by NGO NatConnect Foundation that the bund is flanked by mangroves on one side and the wetland on the other.
“The inspection team confirmed to us that the bund and a road on it fall under the mangrove buffer zone,” NatConnect director, B N Kumar, said. The team, which will submit its report to the mangrove committee, did not speak with the media. Kumar said the bund was also not in a complete stretch and there was a huge gap at the northern end of the lake, as per the Maharashtra Remote Sensing Application Centre (MRSAC) map. The gap was subsequently closed burying the water inlet to the lake.
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