It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

Pleasure boating is just scooting into its best months in California as crisp breezes bring out craft of every size on every kind of water -- ocean, lake and reservoir.

Newest small-boat playground is the Salton Sea, a once-dry desert sinkhole which is now a salty lake 42 miles long and 235 feet below sea level.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

Engineers estimated that once the project is finished, the tunnel will allow 500 million cubic meters of water to be drawn from the lake annually, while maintaining a constant water level.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

To the north of the city is a large artificial lake, called Anasagar with a marble structure known as Baradari.

By the lake is the Daulat Bāgh, a garden laid out by Emperor Jahāngīr.

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

However, the extent to which acid rain contributes directly or indirectly via runoff from the catchment to lake and river acidity ( i. e., depending on characteristics of the surrounding watershed ) is variable.

When this hydrological link is not present, the Black Sea is a lake, operating independent of the global ocean system.

Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.

However, she is unable to harm Beowulf through his armour and drags him to the bottom of the lake.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

Stolpe found very large amounts of amber on the island, which is unusual since amber is not normally found in lake Mälaren.

After the Mekong's waters crest — when its downstream channels can handle the volume of water — the flow reverses, and water flows out of the engorged lake.

On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.

Large vessels of the lake freighter fleet are built on the lakes and cannot travel downstream beyond the Welland Canal.

Salt from salterns at the upper Traun river was exported downstream by boat across the lake, and further on to Bohemia via the Danube.

Zürichsee is strictly the name of the part of the lake downstream of the dam at Rapperswil, mostly located within the canton of Zurich.

This may occur due to tectonic uplift of the region, a lowering of the oceans, the collapse of a moraine-dammed lake downstream, or by capture of the river by another.

During the 20th century, Samarra gained new importance when a permanent lake ( Lake Tharthar ) was created near the town by the Samarra Dam in order to end the frequent flooding of Baghdad downstream.

There is also a small municipal dam ( Lake Brazos Dam ) near the downstream city limit of Waco, which raises the level of the river through the city to form a town lake.

Lake Saint Pierre () is a lake in Quebec, Canada, located on the Saint Lawrence River between Sorel-Tracy and Trois-Rivières, downstream and east of Montreal.

Bull Shoals is thus the lake farthest downstream in a chain of four artificial lakes that include ( from upstream to downstream ) Beaver Lake, Table Rock Lake and Lake Taneycomo.

The Gwash makes a net input to the lake but its flow downstream is maintained.

Lake volume is now at the mercy of a cascade of forces that include the fact that it is very likely impossible that the prevailing climate pattern of profound drought will or can change to precipitation surcharge in a time frame shorter than that in which the lake level will fall below the dead storage level of the downstream diversion and hydro-power intake tunnels.

But they were permanently sealed with massive concrete plugs, isolating them from the remaining sections of the downstream outlet tunnels when the main dam began to be raised and, later when the lake was filled.

Lake Hume is an artificial lake in Australia formed by the Hume Weir east of Albury-Wodonga on the Murray River just downstream of its junction with the Mitta River.

The River Avon flows through the grounds, with a weir downstream, so a small lake is formed.

This necessitated the opening of the flood gates at a reservoir elevation of, and for several weeks water was spilled from the lake causing some flooding downstream.

The Luvua river exits lake Nweru and flows northwest to join the Lualaba River, which becomes the Congo River further downstream.

Salinity levels in the lake have been one prominent aspect of the debate over diversion of lake water into the Sheyenne River, with questions of the potential environmental impact of the diverted water on downstream rivers, lakes, and communities.

Oneida Lake is a remnant of Glacial Lake Iroquois, a large prehistoric lake formed when glaciers blocked ( from downstream ) the flow of the St. Lawrence River, the outlet of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.

The dam still collects and redirects most of the water via a tunnel sluice or penstock ( pipe ) around the falls to an electricity generation station downstream that is lower than the lake, except for a few days each year.

In other cases, such as Glacial Lake Missoula and Glacial Lake Wisconsin in the United States, the sudden rupturing of the supporting dam caused glacial lake outburst floods, the rapid and catastrophic release of dammed water resulting in the formation of gorges and other structures downstream from the former lake.

The lake was essentially an enlargement of the present Lake Ontario that formed because the St. Lawrence River downstream from the lake was blocked by the ice sheet near the present Thousand Islands.