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re: What's the difference between a Pond and a Lake ?
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:01 pm to The Torch
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:01 pm to The Torch
Difference in vegetation growth. Lakes are typically large enough and deep enough that waves form and prevent plants and shite from growing along the shore while ponds will have large amounts of vegetation along the shore and algae on or just beneath the surface.
This post was edited on 7/6/19 at 5:04 pm
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Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:01 pm to The Torch
I think lakes are fed by running water such as streams or rivers or Bayous and ponds aren’t
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:02 pm to The Torch
There is a common sense legal definition in Minnesota, probably other States too.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:03 pm to The Torch
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:05 pm to Kafka
Never trust Minnesota for a definition of what a lake is.
WI has more as MN counts ponds as lakes.
WI has more as MN counts ponds as lakes.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:13 pm to Kafka
quote:A House Is Not A Motel
What's the difference between a motel and a hotel
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:18 pm to The Torch
You can throw a rock across a pond.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:23 pm to The Torch
Michigan is called “The Great Lake State” not “The Great Pond State”.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:24 pm to 4Ghost
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Pond is manmade. A lake is a natural occurrence
So it's the LSU ponds then.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:26 pm to The Torch
Lake > 3.50 acres > Pond
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:32 pm to eScott
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So it's the LSU ponds then.
There's a petition to rename them the LSU Ponds.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:34 pm to The Torch
Same thing in Clemson, how you can tell it is not Auburn.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:46 pm to Tigerpaw123
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All depends if you are buying or selling
Buying it is a pond
Selling it is a lake
As a developer and builder of both, I have never heard that before. I will never forget it.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:54 pm to The Torch
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Guess what? There is no official scientific difference between a lake and a pond. In fact, the only real criteria to categorize something as a lake or pond is that the area in question must be a standing or slow-moving body of water surrounded by land.
Attempting to get more specific from there raises some semantic problems. The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), a U.S. government-sponsored database that attempts to standardize the naming of geographical features, defines a lake as a “natural body of inland water,” but also includes no less than 54 other similar geographical terms—including their definition of a pond.
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Posted on 7/6/19 at 5:58 pm to The Torch
I live on a pond (100 yards wide by 250 yards long), but it is referred to as a lake. However, the lake (or pond imho) doesn't have a name. Maybe it should be named "Pond Lake." Weirdly, it doesn't show up as a body of water on google maps. Maybe it is because it is just a ditch pond that stays full (7 feet deep or so) by design.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 6:03 pm to Napoleon
Most Se Louisiana lakes aren't lakes either. Ponchartrain is an Estuary.
This post was edited on 7/6/19 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 7/6/19 at 6:05 pm to The Ostrich
They teach this in college courses in Limnology.
Some limnologists define “ponds” as any water body less than 2.5 acres in surface area regardless of depth, others define lakes as any water body deep enough to thermally stratify, regardless of surface area. At the end of the day it’s boils down to semantics, unless legally defined by a regulatory authority.
But I have to say this is the best definition I’ve ever seen
Some limnologists define “ponds” as any water body less than 2.5 acres in surface area regardless of depth, others define lakes as any water body deep enough to thermally stratify, regardless of surface area. At the end of the day it’s boils down to semantics, unless legally defined by a regulatory authority.
But I have to say this is the best definition I’ve ever seen
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Buying it is a pond
Selling it is a lake
Posted on 7/6/19 at 6:08 pm to redstick13
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There's a petition to rename them the LSU Ponds.
The world is retarded right now, so this is their chance.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 6:14 pm to CrawDude
In the southeast, farm ponds are man made and will fill in and become swamps and then dry land if they aren't drained and dredged often enough.
Posted on 7/6/19 at 6:25 pm to The Torch
My aunt and uncle had an area of water that measured about 140 feet x 100 feet. There was a small island in the middle that was about 12 feet in diameter. The body of water had green moss in it as well as gar fish. The depth was about 7-9 feet. We always called it a lake but it might have been more accurately described as a pond.
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