The lowest points are along the lake shore at, while the highest point, at, is a landfill located in the Hegewisch community area on the city's far south side.

The fish community of this lake has remained stable over a long period until a number of introduced species | introductions in the 1970s restructured its food web.

The fish community of this lake has remained unchanged over a very long period of time.

Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is the largest breeding site for the threatened Lesser Flamingo, a huge community of which nest in the salt marshes of the lake.

Berchtesgaden is often associated with the Watzmann, at 2713 m the third-highest mountain in Germany ( after Zugspitze and Hochwanner ), which is renowned in the rock climbing community for its Ostwand ( East Face ), and a deep glacial lake by the name of Königssee ( 5. 2 km² ).

The lake originally supported a native deepwater fish community dominated by lake trout, which fed on a number of deepwater ciscos as well as sculpins and other native fishes.

The deepwater demersal fish community of the lake was in a state of collapse by 2006, and a number of drastic changes have been observed in the zooplankton community of the lake.

Regional authorities are primarily responsible for environmental management, including water, contaminant discharge and coastal management, river and lake management including flood and drainage control, regional land management ; regional transport ( including public transport ) and harbours, biosecurity or pest management ; while territorial authorities are responsible for: local-level land use management ( urban and rural planning ); network utility services such as water, sewerage, stormwater and solid waste management ; local roads ; libraries ; parks and reserves ; and community development.

This happens in December where thousands of lights are floated on the lake to commemorate loved ones in the local community who have been lost to cancer.

The little lumbering community that had started to build up around the lake must have intrigued James Ludington, he wanted to build not just a business but a community.

Many community events including fishing competitions have attracted thousands to this lake to participate.

Cameron Park has several shopping areas, a championship golf course and country club, a community center and pool complex, a recreational lake, and the unique Cameron Airpark Estates.

The town was developed in the 1950s and established in 1958 primarily by M. Penn Phillips and the Holly Sugar Corporation as a resort community on the Salton Sea, a saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, yet very little development was achieved due to its isolation and lack of local employment opportunities.

Man-made lake in the Sunnymead Ranch community of northern Moreno Valley. By the early 21st century, the arrival of so many newcomers to Riverside County and the soaring cost of living in Los Angeles and Orange County combined to make the less-developed southern half of the Inland Empire a very attractive place for industry.

When the work crews left the town again became a minor stop on the way to Yosemite until the Boise Cascade company built the Pine Mountain Lake community with a first class golf course, an airport and lake and staked out 5000 lots.

Bowen, often called " Mr. Fourth of July ," eventually gave Roseland Park, which included a man-made lake, to the community.

From its 1956 origins as a summer retreat, Berkeley Lake has grown into a thriving community centered on its namesake lake.

The community consists of several subdivisions around an private lake.

A number of summer homes for visitors to the lake have added to the community.

By his advice Benedict became a hermit and for three years, unknown to men, lived in this cave above the lake.

The lake that occupied the Dead Sea Rift, named " Lake Sedom ", deposited beds of salt that eventually became thick.

Thus, the long bay became a lake.

By late May, the rain became torrential, and the lake was flooded.

I thought my horse was about to die, and would have sprung from his back had a minute more elapsed ; but as that instant all the shrubs and trees began to move from their very roots, the ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled water of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas, as I too plainly discovered, that all this awful commotion was the result of an earthquake.

Even though the Kanembu became the main power-base of the Sayfuwa, Kanem's rulers continued to travel frequently throughout the kingdom and especially towards Bornu, west of lake Chad.

Because it is the shallowest, it is also the warmest of the Great Lakes, and in 1999 this almost became a problem for two nuclear power plants which require cool lake water to keep their reactors cool.

When the ice finally receded from the St. Lawrence valley, the outlet was below sea level, and for a short time the lake became a bay of the Atlantic Ocean, in association with the Champlain Sea.

The lake became a hub of commercial activity following the War of 1812 with canal building on both sides of the border and heavy travel by lake steamers.

The exact, detailed origin for how this lake became the name for the province is unknown.

Due to the post-glacial rebound, Södertälje kanal and the mouth of Riddarfjärden bay had become so shallow by about the year 1200 that ships had to unload their cargoes near the entrances, and progressively the bay became a lake.

The Arab traders also introduced the cultivation of rice, which became a major crop in the lake region.

The French, who had colonized the Saint Lawrence River valley to the north, and the English, who had taken over the Dutch settlements that became the Province of New York to the south, began contesting the area as early as 1691, when Pieter Schuyler built a small wooden fort at the Ticonderoga point on the western shore of the lake.

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.

Several invasive species, including sea lamprey, alewife and rainbow smelt, became abundant in the lake by the 1930s.

In the 12th century, viticulture was introduced to the region, and the sunny slopes of the lake from Lavaux to Montreux became an important wine-growing region.

He arrived at the Mirrormere, a lake in a valley below Caradhras in the Misty Mountains, and there founded what became the greatest and richest of the Mansions of the Dwarves: Khazad-dûm ( Dwarrowdelf ), afterward called Moria ( meaning ' Dark Chasm ' in Sindarin ).

After an arduous journey, the two became the first Europeans to reach Lake Tanganyika ( although Speke was still blind at this point and could not properly see the lake ).

The lake became known as the Swan Lake because of that, and when Phylius died, he was buried near it.

Long after, the hole filled with water and became a lake which is now known as Loch na Súl, or " Lake of the Eye ", which is to be found in County Sligo.

Each stone created a hole in the cliff, and the water of the lake became lower.

Jacques de Noyon, a Frenchman who came from Trois Rivières, ( Quebec ), explored this area in 1688 and became the first white man to view the lake.

It became Lake Bronson in the late 1930s after the dam was built and their homestead became part of the lake.