Is Buffalo Lake a clean lake?

We at the US Fish and Wildlife Service would like to let the public know that the water in Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge is contaminated with bacteria (fecal coliform and E. coli). The lake water may also carry other contaminants that could make humans and animals sick.



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The deepest lake that borders Minnesota is Lake Superior, which reaches a maximum depth of 1,290 feet. The deepest inland natural lake is Lake Saganaga in Cook County (240 feet deep), The deepest lakes in this area are Six, which reaches 140 feet and Otter Tail, which reaches 120 feet.

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In the United States along the Colorado River, both Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the nation's two largest reservoirs, have dipped to dangerously low levels in recent years because of a historic drought that began in 2000 and years of water overuse.

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6 Lakes That Are Drying Up
  • Lake Poopó This lake in west-central Bolivia occupies a shallow depression in the Altiplano, or “High Plateau,” at 12,090 feet (3,686 meters) above sea level. ...
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The Aral Sea (/'ær?l/ ARR-?l) was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s.

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At 1,943 feet (592 meters), Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and one of the deepest in the world.

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Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve.

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Lake Superior, bordered by Ontario, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, is the northernmost and westernmost lake and can be considered the headwater of the system.

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