artificial pond

Also known as water pool, pool of water, pool, pond

body of man-made standing water, that is usually smaller than a lake

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Subclass of: still waters
Image: New fishpool, Glen Strae. - geograph.org.uk - 126317.jpg
Said to be same as: waterhole

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topic's main category: Category:Ponds
OpenStreetMap tag: water=pond
Commons category: Ponds
equivalent class: schema.org/Pond
studied by: limnology
topic has template: Template:Ponds
different from: Staw
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
exact match: purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000033
P8168: Herbert II, Count of Maine

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Pond at Cornjum, Netherlands A man made pond at sunset in Montgomery County, Ohio. Stereoscopic image of a pond in Central City Park, Macon, GA, c. 1877.

A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially. A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond to be less than 5 hectares (12 acres) in area, less than 5 metres (16 ft) in depth and with less than 30% of its area covered by emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing the ecology of ponds from those of lakes and wetlands.

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