Otisco Lake
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 51 '35 " N , 76 ° 16' 48" W | ||||||
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| Construction time: | 1956 | ||||||
| Height of the barrier structure : | 5.5 m | ||||||
| Crown length: | 95 m | ||||||
| Operator: | Onondaga County Water Authority | ||||||
| Data on the reservoir | |||||||
| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 239 m | ||||||
| Water surface | 8.9 km² | ||||||
| Reservoir length | 8.4 km | ||||||
| Reservoir width | 1.2 km | ||||||
| Storage space | 60 000 000 m³ | ||||||
| Catchment area | 100 km² | ||||||
The Otisco Lake is a lake in upstate New York in the United States .
It is located in the southwest of the city of Syracuse in Onondaga County , as the easternmost and seventh largest of the eleven Finger Lakes . The lake is 8.4 km long, 1.2 km wide at its widest point, and has an area of 8.9 km². The catchment area is almost 100 km² and consists of about half of forests and farmland. Its outflow first flows through Ninemile Creek into Onondaga Lake , and from there through the Seneca River and Oswego River into Lake Ontario .
The lake was created as a moraine lake at the end of the last ice age .
use
At the north end a dam was built as early as 1869 , which raised the water level by about 2.7 m. This was intended to create a larger retention volume to feed the Erie Canal . The dam was raised by another 1.2 m in 1908, this time for use as a drinking water reservoir. Today the Onondaga County Water Authority (OCWA) takes more than 75,000 m³ of drinking water from the lake every day.
Recreational anglers regularly fetch trout from Otisco Lake, while commercial fishermen catch pikeperch and pike .
Ecological condition
In the middle, the lake is divided in half by another dam with a road, the Otisco Causeway . The two halves have a very different character, because the southern half is largely the result of flooded marshland and therefore contains more organic material. At times, a population of the accidentally introduced Eurasian milfoil has to be fought, fortunately the Chinese water chestnut , which has also been observed in nearby waters, has fortunately not yet reached the lake.
Web links
- Otisco Lake - New York's Finger Lakes on nyfalls.com
- Otisco Lake in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System