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The Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area occupies a reclaimed area. Much of it was, in former times, the Paul Thompson wetland cattle ranch; parts of the area were surface-mined for coal. Since 2005, the parcel has been under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, with 7,200 acres enrolled in the Wetland Reserve Program. [3]
A pond is smaller than a lake [1] and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond to be less than 5 hectares (12 acres) in area, less than 5 metres (16 ft) in depth and with less than 30% of its area covered by emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing the ecology of ponds from those of lakes and wetlands.
Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.
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Lake George is a mill pond on Deep River in Hobart, Indiana, in the United States. Lake George was formed when George Earle constructed a dam on Deep River to power sawmills and gristmills . [ 3 ] The lake is fed by several small streams, including Deep River, the largest, and Turkey Creek.
Gibson Lake is the cooling pond for Duke Energy Indiana's Gibson Generating Station. Measuring at around 3,500 acres (14 km 2), it is the largest lake in Indiana built completely above ground, its shores consisting of rock levees on all but two of the lake's six sides both of which were also built up to build the power plant. Opened to fishing ...
The Sechhi depth of the lake averaged 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) in August, although the depth was deeper in May and October. [55] The overall water quality for Lake James ranked 3rd best of the 27 Indiana lakes tested by the EPA that year. [58] The mesotrophic classification was confirmed in 2005 by additional studies.
The Elk City Reservoir is a reservoir located 7 miles (11 km) east of Elk City, Kansas.The dam that forms the lake was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.It has approximately 4,500 acres (18 km 2) of water, and 12,000 acres (49 km 2) of wildlife, and a total of over 50 miles (80 km) of shoreline.