Picture of the day
A panoramic view of the vast mudpit that used to be Roslyn Lake, now containing nothing but the scrapwood that used to be the Marmot flume.
(panorama made with a bunch of photos @f5.6, stitched together with a demo copy of DoubleTake)
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It used to be the headpond for a hydro plant that was about 1 km to the right and 150 meters down from it. I believe that they just diked around a swamp and pumped water into it; when the flume was blown up, it took about a week for all of the water to drain out through the penstock, which sounds a lot like how a made lake would drain.
Ah, OK.
Please note I was wondering if I was looking at the panorama wrong, rather than disputing the use of “lake” as nomenclature. (Having lived outside Ontario will at least cause one to notice that the referents for “lake” one has are a bit odd by the standards of the wider world…)
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Has it been filled in?
It seems really flat for a former lake…