The lake's area is of surface water.

In an average year the lake covers an area of around, but the lake's size fluctuates substantially due to its shallowness.

Over half of the lake's area is taken up by its many small islands ( including Bogomerom archipelago ), reedbeds and mud banks, and a belt of swampland across the middle divides the northern and southern halves while the shorelines are largely composed of marshes.

A 2001 study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research blamed the lake's retreat largely on overgrazing in the area surrounding the lake, causing desertification and a decline in vegetation.

The lake's importance declined when the Byzantines lost control and the area came under the control of the Umayyad Caliphate and subsequent Islamic empires.

These changes have arisen for multiple reasons: successive burning within its basin, soot and ash from which has been deposited over the lake's wide area ; from increased nutrient inflows via rivers, and from increased pollution associated with settlement along its shores.

The lake's surface area is.

It was claimed without evidence that the lake is one of only a few lakes in the Chicago area that to be suitable to hold such events because of the lake's length, width, and shape.

After the Monon Railroad came to the lake's western shore in 1882, many new residents flocked to the area along with tourists who saw the lake as a resort destination.

It is a favorite fishing and recreation lake for soldiers in their off-duty hours, but also sees much use from area residents, campers and tourists, who access it from the state forest campground located at the lake's northwest corner.

As a result of the lake's existence, Lake Ronkonkoma was once a resort town, until the area experienced a population explosion in the mid-1900s.

The lake's high altitude, great depth, slow rate of refill and mountainous location in a turbulently volcanic area that has undergone changing climate have all given the lake a complex history of changing flow patterns, with its outflow to the sea apparently historically unusual: it has been described as ' practically endorheic ' for this reason.

Despite the risks from carbon dioxide and collapse of the lake's retaining wall, the area is being resettled.

A high percentage ( 29. 4 %) of the lake's drainage area under cultivation.

The lake's area, which normally is 2, 820 km² ( data before 1998 ), may increase to 20, 000 km² in flood season, when vast amounts of water and sediment from the Chang Jiang flow into the lake.

Being of firmer ground, the area east of the main plaza was built up first, with the lake's waters up against the walls of a number of these constructions.

The Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act stipulates that any development which targets the moraine or nearby areas must satisfy several conditions, most prominently that each development leave a buffer zone of between it and any hydrological feature ; for a kettle lake, this measure is from the edge of the lake's catchment area.

By 1822, due to serious threat of malaria, the lake's water level was lowered after its outlet to the Seneca River was dredged and the low lying swampy area, located in what is now the northern end of downtown Syracuse, was drained.

The lake's long and narrow shape posed a challenge to settlers of the Worcester area in the 17th century.

body which controls the lake's affairs has also acquired agricultural land in the catchment area of the Vihar lake as a sanitary precaution.

Of the of Lake Manyara National Park, the lake's alkaline waters ( with a pH near 9. 5 ) cover approximately, though the area and pH fluctuate widely with the seasons, and dry spells expose large areas of mud flats.

The lake's outflow at the southwestern end is into tributaries of the Rockaway River, which run through the United States Army's Picatinny Arsenal and through an area of legally-designated wetlands where development is restricted.

The lake's name comes from the Pink family who originally owned property in the area.

* the basin is unusually deep and steep-sided compared to the lake's surface area

The lake's average depth is 47 fathoms 1 foot ( 283 ft ; 86 m ), with a maximum depth of 133 fathoms 4 feet ( 802 ft ; 244 m ).

The lake's primary source is the Niagara River, draining Lake Erie, with the St. Lawrence River serving as the outlet.

The lake's average depth is 46 fathoms 3 feet ( 279 ft ; 85 m ), while its greatest depth is 153 fathoms 5 feet ( 923 ft ; 281 m ).

The Lake Eyre Yacht Club is a dedicated group of sailors who sail on the lake's floods, including recent trips in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2009.

The lake's average depth is 195 feet ( 59 m ), while the maximum depth is 750 feet ( 229 m ).

Stansbury, Carrington, and Hat Islands are extensions of the Stansbury mountain range, and Strongs Knob is an extension of the Lakeside Mountains which run along the lake's western shore.

The salinity of the lake's main basin, Gilbert Bay, is highly variable and depends on the lake's level ; it ranges from 5 to 27 % ( 50 to 270 parts per thousand ).

In the two bays that receive most of the lake's fresh water inflows, Bear River Bay and Farmington Bay, the diversity of organisms is much higher.

The extremely high methyl mercury concentrations have been only in the lake's anoxic deep brine layer ( monimolimnion ) below a depth of 20 ' ( 6 m ), but concentrations are also moderately high up in the water column where there is oxygen to support brine shrimp and brine flies.

The lake's north arm contains deposits of oil, but it is of poor quality and it is not economically feasible to extract and purify it.

The United Nations Environment Programme and the Lake Chad Basin Commission concur that at least half of the lake's decrease is attributable to shifting climate patterns.

Along with the conflicts that involve the countries, violence is increasing among the lake's dwellers.

The lake's water is purified and fed into Zurich's water system ; it is potable.

The heavy snow totals across the county can be attributed to the lake-effect, where precipitation is intensified by the warm waters of the Great Salt Lake, which never entirely freezes due to the lake's high salinity.

The largest stream flowing into this lake is the Kagera River, the mouth of which lies on the lake's western shore.

By 2006, the water levels in Lake Victoria had reached an 80-year low, and Daniel Kull, an independent hydrologist living in Nairobi, Kenya, calculated that Uganda was releasing about twice as much water as is allowed under the agreement, and was primarily responsible for recent drops in the lake's level.

Barren River Lake State Resort Park is located primarily within Barren County, along the lake's shoreline.