Mysuru: Among the oldest Lakes in Mysuru outskirts are Hinkal, Alanahalli, Lalithadripura, Nachanahalli, Koorgalli, Kergalli and Bommanahalli Lakes. While almost all these Lakes are in a dying state thanks to encroachment, pollution and rapid industrialisation, the Koorgalli Lake is probably destined to die early as lakhs of litres of industrial effluents and sewage flows into the Lake on a day-to-day basis.
The 21-acre Koorgalli Lake is located on the Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) Road between KRS Road and Excel Public School. Probably the first government agency that dealt a death blow to the Lake is Karnataka Industrial Development Board (KIADB) that cut the vast lake into two parts to build a Double Road that links Lingadevarakoppalu and Maidanahalli. The two-kilometre road cuts through the Lake right in the middle dividing the water body into North and South. Both the Southern and Northern parts of the Lake are victims of pollution.
