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Indiana built completely above ground, its shores consisting of rock levees on all but two of the lake's six sides both of which were also built up to build the power plant. Opened to fishing in 1978, Gibson Lake had been a prime source of bass and several types of catfish, bluegill, and carp. The
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Many of these birds use the area as a stop-over on their respective destinations. Wildlife and bird watchers will notice that Google Earth and Garmin GPS maps refer to the lake's location as Broad Pond. The ancient Broad Pond-Cane Ridge-Wabash River oxbow was once considered for a
National Wildlife
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The two sides are separated by a splitter dike that juts approximately 500 yards into the lake from the main plant that forces the water to remain in the lake for around 1–2 weeks.
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Gibson Lake Will Not Reopen for
Fishing April 1 – Duke Energy
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6 mi (9.7 km) (includes the central splitter dike)
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Reservoir (cooling pond) in
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1032:Protected areas of Gibson County, Indiana
16:For other places with the same name, see
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976:Princeton Community Middle School Gym
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946:Lyles Consolidated School
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774:Annual Temperature Range
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916:Gibson County Courthouse
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600:Lesser black-backed gull
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179:Plant Water Discharges,
1001:Wheeling Covered Bridge
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229:2 mi (3.2 km)
900:Gibson County, Indiana
898:Points of interest in
793:40 °F (4 °C)
421:American white pelican
326:Mount Carmel, Illinois
1042:Reservoirs in Indiana
951:Oakland City New Lake
1037:Owensville, Indiana
911:Old Fort Branch Gym
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275:Residence time
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60:Show map of Indiana
991:Tri-State Speedway
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655:Mallard duck
590:Iceland gull
516:Canada goose
481:Golden eagle
441:Ross's goose
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284:Shore length
265:(0.027
258:Water volume
234:Surface area
194:Patoka River
1052:Duke Energy
981:The Log Inn
931:Gibson Lake
712:Temperature
705:Bald eagles
699:Least terns
575:Little gull
511:Green heron
491:Wild turkey
471:Surf scoter
456:Glossy ibis
436:Snowy egret
406:Eared grebe
353:Duke Energy
345:Gibson Lake
322:Settlements
263:US gal
218:Max. length
144: /
119:Coordinates
84:Gibson Lake
54:Gibson Lake
29:Gibson Lake
18:Gibson Lake
1026:Categories
858:2007-12-15
817:References
660:Snow goose
506:Least tern
446:Wood stork
376:condensers
250:Max. depth
226:Max. width
625:Snowy owl
620:Gyrfalcon
496:King rail
163:reservoir
832:Archived
560:Red knot
540:Whimbrel
382:Wildlife
369:selenium
100:Location
686:Refuge.
356:Indiana
347:is the
313:Islands
279:2 weeks
132:87°46′W
129:38°21′N
112:Indiana
801:Summer
790:Winter
779:Season
756:Summer
745:Winter
734:Season
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304:Frozen
307:never
204:Basin
785:Max
740:Max
667:and
665:Blue
364:lake
351:for
317:none
158:Type
782:Min
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