Description:
- Bison Swamp
- Edapalli
- Emerald
- Tirsigadi
- O-valley
- Burnside
- Konnavakarai
- Kattery
- Mundakund
- Governor shola
- Curzon
The table below sums up the important points of the wetlands surveyed by group IV: S. No. | Name of Wetland | Altitude | Management | Pressures | Special Features | Invasive species(Wattle, Ulux,Cytissus,Lantana) | Grazing | Cultural- significance for |
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| 1 | Bison Swamp | 2300 | PA | Wattle | inflows-6; outflows-3, deep,clear water; large area | Y | Y | TODAS | 2 | Eddapalli | 2033 | Open Access | Grazing, panchayat wells, warehouse, tea | inflows-7; outflows-2; insectivorous plants; religious significance; encroachment. Imp source for Cnr; medium size, wetland birds | Y | Y | BADAGAS | 3 | Emerald | 1927 | Open Access | vegetables, grazing, encroachment, eucalyptus & wattle, tea | perennial water source; medium size; inflows-3, outflow-1; | Y | Y | BADAGAS | 4 | Tirsigadi-1 | 1937 | Open Access | vegetables, grazing, encroachment; euca, tea | religious significance; waste; summer dry; concrete footpaths; |
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| KOTAS | 5 | Tirsigadi-2 | 1960 | Open Access | vegetable | butterflies, small size, fencing by default; Kota religious ground; cutoff by road; |
| Y | KOTAS | 6 | Tirsigadi-3 | 1949 | Open Access | vegetable, grazing, tea | fencing by default, insectivorous plants, siphoning/draining for veg, | Y | Y | KOTAS | 7 | O'valley | 1231 | pvt | coffee, encroachment | bird diversity, medicinal plants, converted for agri; yellow-gray soil; baigai maram; vasambu | Y |
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| 8 | Konavakarai | 1733 | Open Access | sanitation, garbage, drinking water | high bird diversity, vasambu; surrounded by village, no protection, concrete footpath; baigai maram | Y |
| BADAGAS | 9 | Burside / Pathimattam | 1495 | PA/Pvt | tea, vegetables, grazing, waste, burial | Many shola trees, Outflow steam feeds to the Kolithorai river, large area |
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| 10 | Curzon |
| Pvt | Grazing, tea | root zone cleaning, clean water, feeding into Hallimoyar, medium area |
| Y |
| 11 | Mailoor | 1692 | Pvt | altered vegetation, tea | manipulated by closing outflow; baigai maram, wetland birds, introduced fishes | Y |
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| 12 | Kaatery |
| PA/Pvt | vegetable, submergence for reservoir | very big, source at Dodabetta, water for Cordite factory, silt monitoring stn, |
| Y | BADAGAS | 13 | Mundakund | 875 | Pvt/Encroached | vegetable, tea, | large area, surrounded by forest areas on some sides, high inflow during rainy, soil - grey, diff grasses, |
| Y | KN | 14 | Governor Shola | 2168 | PA/Pvt | vegetable, scotch broom, wattle, pine, grazing | large area, spl vegn, close to Paimund shola as well as Ooty dump, feeds into Bhavani | Y | Y | TODAS | |
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