<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 at 00:37, Brian M. Sperlongano <<a href="mailto:zelonewolf@gmail.com">zelonewolf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was looking for examples of large pools, to try to get a sense of what the upper limit would be for calling something a "pool".</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What's the upper limit for a lake? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I encountered a few links [1,2] which seem to indicate that entire stretches of the Mississippi River between subsequent dams/locks are referred to as "pools".  We're talking stretches of the river 10s of miles long!</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's long. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>  From what I gather, this is quite a different thing from *stream* pools, so probably important to draw that distinction.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Mississippi_River#List_of_pools_and_locks" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Mississippi_River#List_of_pools_and_locks</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://www.ifishillinois.org/profiles/Mississippi.php" target="_blank">https://www.ifishillinois.org/profiles/Mississippi.php</a></div></div><br></blockquote>From the second link, it appears these "pools" are actually reservoirs.</div><div class="gmail_quote">Pools in an angling sense, maybe, but not in a strict hydrological</div><div class="gmail_quote">sense.  Probably better to treat them as reservoirs.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Paul</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>