About OOTY

Udhagamandalam, the capital of Nigiris district in Tamil Nadu is a tourism important place. This hill station is also called as Queen of Hills and the people flow to his hill resort during the summer months and as in normal seasons is been increasing day by day. As a result of this, the pollution load on environmental components are creasing exponentially. The take, an artificial one formed by John Sullivan around 18th century is a boon to Ooty. Being the located at a low level, the entire rain water as well the sewage is flowing towards the lake and polluted year by year. In order to restore the quality of lake, several effective measures are taken by the Government including bioremediation by public works department. A study on the pollution effect to this lake been conducted as a project and the factorsbo responsible for the pollution has been studied and present in the report. Necessary preventive measures and suggestion for the improvement of the solid and sewage management has been made.

“Nilgiris” is the name in Sanskrit means BLUE MOUNTAINS and in Tamil it means NEELAMALAI. The Nilgiris District is situated in the Western Ghat. It is surrounded by Coimbatore District, Kerala State and Karnataka State on the Eastern, Western and the Northen side respectively. The Nilgiris District is a celebrated summer resort for the tourist from all over India. Ootacamund or Udhagamandalam rightly described as “Queen of Hill Stations” is spread over an are of 36Sq.Km. it is the most popular of all the destinations of the Nilgiris. The special attraction of Ooty is its lushy vegetation, the blue screen of the mountain, blue coloured flowers and the mild climate. There are many places of tourist attraction in and around Ooty. Main attraction are the Botanical Garden, the Dhoddabetta Peak, the Udhagai Lake etc. The development of the Town started from the year 1821 and the town expands its limit year after year. Now it has 32 municipal wards and the expected population by the year 2011 is 1,50,000. The Udhagai lake was once a part of a west flowing stream. In 1824, the lower part of the stream was converted into a lake. There is a boat house where row boats and motor boats can be had on hired. The original area of the lake was 65 hectares in the year 1823 and it is shrunken to the present status of 23 hectares.