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drainage lake

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drainage lake [′drān·ij ‚lāk]
(hydrology)
An open lake which loses water via a surface outlet or whose level is essentially controlled by effluent discharge.


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The torrential rain also caused the two huge drainage lakes built at the Great North Park in Gosforth, to overflow.
The bundle of food wrapping containing the infant's body was discovered by an off-duty police officer in a drainage lake near the village of Loughton in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on Sunday afternoon.
The revised plan, created by Stevenson Ranch Venture LLC, does away with a series of drainage lakes scattered throughout the development and replaces it with a plan for a drainage channel that will run through the center of the community and into a basin at the southeast corner of Pico Canyon Road and Stevenson Ranch Road.
 
 
 
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