[Tagging] Definition of lake/pond as applied to stream/plunge pools

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

>   From what I gather, this is quite a different thing from *stream* pools,
>> so probably important to draw that distinction.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Mississippi_River#List_of_pools_and_locks
>> [2] https://www.ifishillinois.org/profiles/Mississippi.php
>>
>> From the second link, it appears these "pools" are actually reservoirs.
> Pools in an angling sense, maybe, but not in a strict hydrological
> sense.  Probably better to treat them as reservoirs.
>

Definitely not - we're talking hundreds of consecutive miles of the
Mississippi River.  In this case, the locks aren't making reservoirs,
they're replacing rapids to make the river navigable.  Certainly still a
river.  I'm just pointing out a feature of rivers that are called "pools"
in some context, but don't seem to be "stream pools".
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