The city wants to drain a large lake to use the land for a new courthouse adjacent to county offices. What environmental factors need to be investigated before draining the lake?

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trancenova · Answer

lol, what wouldn't need to be investigated (sorry to be sarcastic there) Anyway, I think the answer to this one depends alot on what you have been learning in class because there is a large range of answers.

I would say (a) What lives in the lake? (b) What lives around the lake? (c) What other water bodies does this lake feed into? (d) What other processes are effected by the late (Eg. groundwater, sewage). The list goes on :) What were your ideas?