The road from Stockach to Überlingen, and then along the lake's shore to Uhldingen and on to Friedrichshafen, and the east-west train tracks, generally follow the path of the old Roman road.

Industry located along the lake's shore had been dumping effluent for an extended period of time.

In the time of the Byzantine Empire, the lake's significance in Jesus ' life made it a major destination for Christian pilgrims.

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.

A standard for mimicking the old rate of outflow called the " agreed curve " was established, setting the maximum flow rate at 300 to 1, 700 cubic metres per second ( 392 – 2, 224 cu yd / sec ) depending on the lake's water level.

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.

Unusual forms of life could be found in the lake's liquid layer, an ecosystem sealed off below the ice for millions of years, conditions which could resemble those of the hypothesized ice-covered ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa.

However, by other more documented accounts, the lake's designation borrows from the moniker of a Native American woman, Magdalena, who interpreted the language for a Spanish expedition into Florida in 1549, or even more likely, the name comes from the 1882 marriage of John Parrish and Mary Magdalene Yates, daughter of Jonah Yates, first mayor of Plant City in the Lake Magdalene section of Hillsborough County.

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.

Common Loons are a frequent site on Long Lake and have been for decades becoming part of the lake's identity.

The lake's name comes from the local Pequot Indian word for " lake with pierced islands ".

The city is named for an eponymous lake, and lies on that lake's east side.

This only accounts for about 10 % of the lake's water balance.

In renaming the lake, the City Council recognized Johnson for her dedication to beautifying the lake and her efforts to create a recreational trail system around the lake's shoreline.

The main marina for Utah Lake is at Utah Lake State Park on the lake's eastern shore.

Later, the Red River Colony to its south took the lake's name for Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba.

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.

In 1779 General James Clinton led an expedition down the Susquehanna after making the upper portion navigable by damming up the river's source at Otsego Lake, allowing the lake's level to rise and then destroying the dam and flooding the river for miles downstream.

The lake's status as a byway for travelers allowed the plague to spread across these continents via medieval merchants who unknowingly carried infested vermin along with them.

The lake's islands provide nesting habitat for the piping plover and large numbers of American white pelicans.

The park has a small lake, St. James's Park Lake, with two islands, West Island, and Duck Island, which is named for the lake's collection of waterfowl.

The town of Bala sits at its northern end and the narrow gauge Bala Lake Railway runs for several kilometres along the lake's southern shore.

Oxygen weed ( Lagarosiphon major ), an aquarium plant and invasive species native to Southern Africa, has been a problem in the lake's ecosystem for some time.

Some experts predict that over 55 % of the lake's fish population has been killed off by this disease ridden type of pollution. The water in the lake is rated Grade V ( the worst grade ) which makes the water unfit for agricultural or industrial uses.

In 2007, during a drought, state water and wildlife managers removed thousands of truckloads of toxic mud from the lake's floor, in an effort to restore the lake's natural sandy base and create clearer water and better habitat for wildlife.

Besides the hydroelectric power produced by the dam, the lake's primary use is recreation, including fishing and rowing.

The small township of Waihola ( population 200 ), nestled against the lake's eastern edge, has facilities for fishing, yachting, and waterskiing, and the lake is an important rowing venue.

The traditional owners of the lake, the Arabuna, are seeking to restore the lake's traditional name, Kati Thanda, and to ban boating on the lake ( effectively closing The Lake Eyre Yacht Club ).

When it became apparent in 1756 that the fort was too far to the west of the lake, the French constructed an additional redoubt to the east to enable cannon to cover the lake's narrows.

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

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.

About 70 rivers and 150 temporary streams flow into the lake, the largest of them, Chulyshman River, supplying more than half of the lake's water.

Where a major eruption has deposited a tephra dam across the lake's outlet, the dam may collapse after the lake has refilled and risen above the level of its normal outlet, the outrush of water causing a large lahar.

The final border approved in 1923 followed a 10-meter wide strip along the lake's northeastern shore, cutting Syria off from the lake.

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

Two rivers leave the lake, the White Nile ( known as the " Victoria Nile " as it leaves the lake ), flows out at Jinja, Uganda on the lake's north shore, and the Katonga River flows out at Lukaya on the western shore connecting the lake to Lake George.

Ultimately, the Welsh-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley, on an expedition funded by the New York Herald newspaper, confirmed the truth of Speke's discovery, circumnavigating the lake and reporting the great outflow at Ripon Falls on the lake's northern shore.

In 1988, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in Beacham v. Lake Zurich Property Owners Association ( 123 Ill. 2d 227 ; 526 N. E. 2d 154 ; 1988 Ill. LEXIS 91 ; 122 Ill. Dec 14, filed June 20, 1988 ) that each individual owner of the private ( aka non-public ) lake's bottom has the legal right to recreate over the surface waters of the entire private lake.

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.

Its goals include improving the water quality of the lake through an assessment of the lake's needs to determine the best approach to achieving a healthy, thriving lake and watershed ecosystem.

The lake was named Indian Lake due to the fact that settlers found Native Americans encamped along the lake's shores when they first arrived in 1869.

A peninsula which extends into the lake, called Captain's Island, contains 178 houses, and there are another 143 houses along the lake's shores.

The lake level is controlled by a dam built in 1913 at the lake's only outlet, the Truckee River, at Tahoe City.

The city is named after its largest lake, White Bear Lake ; the lake's name allegedly comes from Native Americans who previously inhabited the region.