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The lake was constructed in 1974 to collect stormwater discharge from a 98. 8km² catchment that includes the surrounding suburbs of Aranda, Macquarie, Cook, Bruce, Belconnen, McKellar, Giralang, Kaleen in the eastern areas of Belconnen and Gungahlin.
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There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.
But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.
This crisis was addressed in 1992-93 by construction of a tunnel to divert water into the lake from the Arpa River.
The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.
With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.
From it she was rescued by a priest named Martin, who dug a subterraneous passage, by which she escaped, and remained concealed in the woods, her rescuer supporting her, meantime, by the fish he caught in the lake.
Anāsāgar Lake, this historic man-made lake was built by Maharaja Anaji ( 1135-1150 AD ).
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.
At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.
However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.
0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.
Following the defeat of Gog, the last judgment begins: " The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
This was to be achieved by draining the Fucine lake, which would have the added benefit of making the nearby river navigable year-round.
A tunnel was dug through the lake bed, but the plan was a failure.
The draining of the lake was revisited many times in history, including by Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Middle Ages.
However, other sources suggest that the only time the entire lake froze over in the 20th century was in 1912.
Lake Voulismeni at the coast, at Aghios Nikolaos, was formerly a sweetwater lake but is now connected to the sea, in Lasithi.
But while in a small boat in a lake or bay in the mid 60s, he leaned over the side, and his notebook fell out of his breast pocket into the water, where it was lost forever.
Total production of marine, river, and lake fisheries in 2003 was estimated at 222, 965 tons, all but 5, 000 tons from inland waters.
The Arician wood sanctuary near the lake of Nemi was Latin confederal as testified by the dedicatory epigraph quoted by Cato.
The Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships and was connected to the Liffey by the Poddle.
lake and constructed
Typically a dam is constructed on a river, creating an artificial lake behind it.
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.
Since the initial construction of the lake, various buildings of national importance have been constructed on its shores.
A massive canal was also constructed wide and deep through the Caloosahatchee River ; whenever the lake rose too high, the excess water left through the canal.
As a bonus Ward secured some of the property for himself and constructed two sawmills on the lake to process the many thousands of acres of pines that he owned.
When General William T. Sherman ordered a fort constructed on the lake in the 1870s, he gave it the name Fort Coeur d ' Alene ; hence the name of the city that grew around it.
Lake Monroe, the largest lake in Indiana, was constructed by damming Salt Creek south of Bloomington.
This plant is situated on Coffey County Lake, which was constructed as the cooling lake for the plant.
The clubhouse was constructed on high ground, which offered sweeping views of the lake and other attractions.
A tiered boardwalk was constructed along the northern edge of the lake where the town center exists.
At the southern end of the lake is a swimming pool and tennis complex originally called the " Marine Pool ", that is constructed to resemble the deck of an ocean liner.
The name is at least from the fifteenth century, referring to a bay by the small lake Hyn, where the church was constructed.
In September 1895, a dam was constructed across the creek and water began backing-up forming " Lake Naomi ", a lake more than a mile long and about one-third of a mile wide.
The Tennessee Valley Authority constructed a saddle dam between downtown Dandridge and the lake.
It has several smaller temples associated with it and has its own sacred lake, constructed in a crescent shape.
These upgrades resulted in an artificial lake being constructed in the off-run, which became a recreational and swimming venue for the city's residents.
The small but growing satellite town of Kinloch, where a Jack Nicklaus golf resort is being constructed, is 20 kilometres west along the lake.
The is also the Ex – Hacienda de Xico which was constructed at the same time the lake was drained.
The dam was constructed and the valley slowly became a lake, flooding some villages in the process.
A popular hang-out spot is the long wooden boardwalk constructed across one of the marshes, overlooking the lake.
The Army Corps of Engineers has also constructed a variety of recreational facilities around the lake.
The City of Austin then constructed Longhorn Dam and formed a seventh lake in the chain, Lady Bird Lake, in 1960 largely to help beautify the city and to form a cooling pond for Seaholm Power Plant, a no longer used natural gas-burning power plant just north of the river.
It was, however, constructed using plain ice ( from the lake ), before pykrete was considered.
The park offers a fishing lake originally constructed by the Arkansas National Guard and which is well stocked with channel catfish and largemouth bass by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
The park at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains features Lake Greeson, a fishing lake constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1950.
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