Sukhna Lake

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Sukhna Lake

***** Location: India
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Sukhna Lake(Hindi: सुख़ना) in Chandigarh,
India is an artificial lake at the foothills of the Himalayas, the Shivalik hills. This 3 km² rainfed lake was created in 1958 by damming the Sukhna Choe, a seasonal stream coming down from the Shivalik Hills. Originally the seasonal flow entered the lake directly causing heavy siltation. To check the inflow of silt, 25.42 km² of land was acquired in the catchment area and put under vegetation. In 1974, the Choe was diverted and made to bypass the lake completely, the lake being fed by three siltation pots, minimising the entry of silt into the lake itself.

The creation of the lake was one of the greatest gifts from Le Corbusier and the Chief Engineer P L Verma to the city of Chandigarh. To preserve its tranquility Corbusier insisted that it be forbidden to motor boats and the top of the dam (promenade) prohibited to vehicular traffic. The lake is fringed by a golf course to the south, and Nek Chand's famous Rock Garden of Chandigarh to its west.
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Sukhna lake--
a mallard couple swims
in the morning mist

Arvinder Kaur
Chandigarh,India

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Sukhna lake--
a kid names the set of ducks
hope

at the Sukhna
swans, one after another
descending

- Shared by Neelam Dadhwal -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2014


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