Otisco Lake

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 the seventh largest of the eleven Finger Lakes. The lake is 8.4 km long, at its widest point is 1.2 km wide, and has an area of 8.9 km ². The catchment area is about 100 square kilometers, and is approximately half of forests and farmland. Its outflow passes first through the Nine Mile Creek in Onondaga Lake, and from there via the rivers Seneca River and Oswego River into Lake Ontario.

The lake was created as a moraine at the end of the last ice age.

Use

At the north end, a dam was built in 1869, which raised the water level by about 2.7 m. This should be a larger retention volume will be created to feed the Erie Canal. The dam was built in 1908 increased by a further 1.2 m, this time for use as a drinking water reservoir. Today, the Onondaga County Water Authority ( OCWA ) is taken from the lake each day more than 75,000 m³ of drinking water.

Recreational anglers regularly catch trout from the Otisco Lake, commercial fishermen catch walleye and pike.

Ecological status

In the middle of the lake is divided by another dam with a road into two halves. The two halves have a quite different character, because the southern half has arisen in large part from flooded marshland, and therefore contains more organic material. At times, an inventory of accidentally dragged Eurasian thousand sheet must be fought, which is also observed in waters near Chinese water chestnut has not yet reached the lake to happiness.

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