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| Name: | man-made lakes |
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| Description: | Manmade lakes are reservoirs created by man usually through the construction of a dam that creates a large upstream reservoir. Usually the influence of the watershed on these lakes is greater that its influence on a natural lake because the ratio of the size of the watershed to the size of man-made lake is larger. As a result these lakes are influenced more by sediments (which over time will tend to fill a manmade lake) and organic material leading to hypoxic zones and the production of methane. |
| Type: | Noun |
| Term is: | Medium, Variable | | Term has: | | |
