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

[Paul Allen]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 at 01:33, Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>   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.
>

Erm, so?


>   In this case, the locks aren't making reservoirs, they're replacing
> rapids to make the river navigable.
>

There are locks and weirs.  And that second link refers to them as
reservoirs.  But it also calls them pools.  Not entirely consistent.

Or treat it as a river with locks and weirs.


>   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".
>

I would say not a stream pool.  But I'm definitely not an expert.

-- 
Paul
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