Fitch Ditch

Detention Pond

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Aeration or water inflow is critical if you want it to support a food web ...
Fountains are not.

That picture looks cheap and I really hope that we go in a different direction.

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Food web?
Its a freaking detention pond. I'm all for making it look nice, but this is an engineered structure to hold back storm water flows first and foremost

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Well then, it is settled: "Fitch's Filthy Festering Flitlching Poon Lagoon": Thank you ZOO for yet another problem solved.

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Ha ha! I googled poon lagoon and there's a guy in Las Vegas that named his pool that. You can even like his facebook page.

Edit - pardon me. You can 'like' the poon lagoon's facebook page.

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Reveille-Whoop-Traditions-Elephant Walk-Integrity-Ring Presentation at Katy Perry Lake

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FIFY.

Any bets as to how long it takes a drunk tail gater to fall in and drown? Or perhaps drown on Friday before when they run all over trying to claim tailgating space...

They should just call it Fish Camp.

The East Activation Pond

And add a water feature that looks like this famous hot spring in Nevada...

#WRTL

Fitch's Big Wet Watering Hole

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call it anything you want as long as this is a daily occurrence

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I dig it.

Dolla Dolla Bill Ya'll Lake

Chinstrap ocean

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Lake Mosquito...

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Mosquitos dont really breed in lakes, ponds etc. or anything with flowing water.

But glad that one dipsh/t troll was able to get TexAgs thinking this is a bad idea by talking out of his ass.

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So there's gonna be flowing water going into and out from the lake?

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I thought the water source was just going to be Big12 tears...

Lake Spence

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Fitch deserves some recognition in the park for his efforts.

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No one has submitted "Fitch Pond" yet??? C'mon Ags.

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Fitch deserves some recognition in the park for his efforts.

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No one has submitted "Fitch Pond" yet??? C'mon Ags.

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Too simple

Pocket Change Lake

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Fitch deserves some recognition in the park for his efforts.

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No one has submitted "Fitch Pond" yet??? C'mon Ags.

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Too simple

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Okay. How about:

Pickard Pool/Pickard Puddle/Pickard Pond
Slocum Shores/Slocum Sea/Slocum Slough
The Twelfth Marsh
Bonfire Basin
The Maroon Lagoon
Spence Shallows

Baylor Tears

John S. Sharp '72 Retention Pond at Bee Creek

Waffle House Lake at Spence Park at Kyle Field

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Well then, it is settled: "Fitch's Filthy Festering Flitlching Poon Lagoon Brought to you by Slovacek Sausage, Slovacek Sausage the O-fficial sausage of Texas A&M Athletics": Thank you ZOO for yet another problem solved.

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FIFY

Jorie Adams Lake.

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Aeration or water inflow is critical if you want it to support a food web ...
Fountains are not.

That picture looks cheap and I really hope that we go in a different direction.

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Food web?
Its a freaking detention pond. I'm all for making it look nice, but this is an engineered structure to hold back storm water flows first and foremost

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Actually, no.

A detention pond is a structure built that controls storm water flow, and outside of rain events is typically a dry structure. Some hold water annually, but are designed with enough freeboard to operate as designed during storm events. What is proposed at Spence is not a structure that will be designed to mitigate storm flows.

This is an ornamental water feature - it will have water in it full time, and as such will need a feature like a fountain to circulate and aerate water to prevent stagnation. Any benefit for aquatic life resulting from circulation and aeration is likely just a side benefit. Same as the water fountain found at the front of almost every single development built these days - it's for looks, and pretty much nothing else.

Lake Luster