About 200 metres farther along the boundary, we found a freshly dug drainage canal that sliced across the heart of the conservation area.

The lands that were obtained through the desiccation of the lake area were distributed among the people who had built the drainage canal.

In 1932, a drainage canal was dug which converted nontillable land into land fit for farming.

Both of these were behind a small drainage canal that ran east-west.

In 2002, accumulated rainwater in the lake rose to dangerous levels during the rainy monsoon season, breached the artificial drainage canal, and triggered mild lahar flows in the area.