- Kingman Lake
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lake_name = Kingman Lake
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location =Washington, D.C.
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inflow =Anacostia River
outflow =Anacostia River
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basin_countries = United States
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cities =Kingman Lake is a
lake inWashington, D.C. The lake is a stretch of theAnacostia River separated from the river by theBurnham Barrier . TheBoard on Geographic Names officially decided upon the lake's name in 1977.Kingman Lake is a 110-acre
tidal freshwater impoundment created during the 1920s and 1930s to provide a recreational boating area for District of Columbia residents. The lake is connected to the tidal Anacostia River by two inlets located at the northern and southern ends of Kingman Island, a wooded 94-acre dredge/fill-created island that separates the lake from the river.Historically, the area emerged as an expansive freshwater
tidal marsh , renowned for its migratorySora Rail population. Aswetlands were dredged and filled, many such migratory birds stopped coming. The open water tidal "lake" gradually filled withsediment until the dominant low tide feature was amudflat . Because of the lack of suitable substrate elevation, most species of emergent marsh vegetation have not been established over the existing mudflats. In in 2000 the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers , Baltimore District, led the restoration of 42 acres of the freshwater tidal emergent wetland in Kingman Lake.
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