LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
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LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 2058 acres (8.33 km²) in LaSalle County, Illinois
, United States
. It is a man-made lake
, built as a cooling pond
for the LaSalle County Generating Station.
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, United States
United States
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. It is a man-made lake
Lake
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...
, built as a cooling pond
Cooling pond
A cooling pond is a man-made body of water primarily formed for the purpose of supplying cooling water to a nearby power plant or industrial facility such as a petroleum refinery, pulp and paper mill, chemical plant, steel mill or smelter...
for the LaSalle County Generating Station.