On (03 Oct 03) Cindy Haglund wrote to Frank Vest...

Hello Cindy,

 FV> Many man made lakes are feed from streams and rivers that are dammed
 FV> up. The engineers locate a place by calculating how high the water
 FV> will rise based on the height of the dam and what area will be
 FV> covered. Then the city, county or state "acquire" the
land that will
 FV> be covered and the dam is built. That's why many lakes have tree
 FV> stumps

 CH>  I noticed that. Even on the 'shore' they cut a bunch down around
 CH> Bambrok 'lake'. Not a good place to take your dog btw. Good grief. OUr
 CH> two hated it. Made like hell back to the car. Got full of burs....

Generally, the trees in the middle of the lake are left there to die
from the flood. This gives cover for bass and other fish that sport
anglers like to fish for.

 FV> In lakes created this way, the river "channel" is still
there. That's
 FV> why you can go to a lake and fish for channel catfish. ;)
 CH>   I love catfish! :)

Me too. :)

 FV> Salt water would not be real good inland, I think. Salt water tends to
 FV> kill most non-marine plant life and soaks into the soil surrounding

 CH>  True. I was thinking of that big come and go lake in north western
 CH> Australia. Saw a PBS NATURE show about it awhile back. :) This area;
 CH> a shallow valley floods (torrential rains), every five to ten years or
 CH> so, takes two years to dry up. During this period the area springs to
 CH> life. It's magical. :) Animals will come for water, flowers bloom
 CH> everywhere. And there are frogs having laid dormant for five years ...
 CH> hopping happily all over the place... I ought to go look it up.

Lakes like that are neat, but hardly man made. :)

FV> the lake. To make a salt water lake inland would require that the area
 FV> be sealed in some manner, I would think, so as to prevent the salt
 FV> water from leaching into the surrounding land.

 CH>  Lots of rich folks down here. I imagine it could be done given the
 CH>  will. You've seen the Japanese Garden in FW? Now that is amazing! To
 CH>  think it was once a gravel pit.


I've never seen the Japanese Garden in FW. I suppose that some
millionaire in Texas could create a salt lake, but why? It would be
simpler and easier to just take a trip to the Gulf and be done with
it. ;)

 FV> "Open" to me means undeveloped in this case. Fields and
such as that
 FV> would qualify. Housing developments and such do not.
 CH>  Nod. At least FW isn't as claustrophobic as Dallas.

True. Give it time.

 CH>  Keller is being eaten up by developers as we speak. :( Everything
 CH>  taking on a sterile look.

Yup. McKinney is the same way. It's amazing. People want the country
feel with all the perks of the city. They move to the country, create
malls and other city businesses and then complain that the country is
gone.

It's kinda like those people that go to "rough it in the wild" with
their travel trailers, computer links, satellite TV and such. :)


Frank

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