Wood Lake is a lake in a chain of five major lakes which occupies
portions of the Okanagan Valley in the
interior of British
Columbia
, Canada
. The
lakes of the Okanagan Valley were formed by about 8900
BP.
Wood Lake
is immediately south of Kalamalka Lake
connected to it by a dredged channel (the Oyama
canal). Situated between Oyama and Winfield it has a solid
reputation for
rainbow trout fishing.
The lake is named after Tom Wood, who settled on the south end of
the lake around 1860. The dry climate and suitable soil have
encouraged development of a substantial tree fruit industry around
the lake and throughout the valley. The upper watershed is heavily
forested and has been logged for several decades. The lower
elevation of the watershed is described as a
Ponderosa pine/
bunchgrass community.
Physical data
- Normal range of annual water level fluctuation 1.2 m
- Number of beaches 4
There is also a Wood Lake in
Fraser
Valley area of British Columbia.
References
Anonymous (1974a). Kalamalka-Wood Lake Basin Water Resource
Management Study. Water Investigations Branch, British Columbia
Water Resources Service, Victoria, B.C., 209 pp.
Anonymous (1974b). Limnology of the Major Lakes in the Okanagan
Basin. Canada - British Columbia Okanagan Basin Agreement, Final
Report, Technical Supplement V. British Columbia Water Resources
Service, Victoria, British Columbia, 261 pp.
Anonymous (1974c). The Main Report of the Consultative Board.
Canada - British Columbia Okanagan Basin Agreement. British
Columbia Water Resources Service, Victoria, British Columbia.
Stockner, J.G. and Northcote, T.G. (1974). Recent limnological
studies of Okanagan Basin lakes and their contribution to
comprehensive water resource planning. Journal of the Fisheries
Research Board of Canada, 31, 955-976.
Walker, I. R., E. D. Reavie, S. Palmer, and R. N. Nordin, 1993. A
palaeoenvironmental assessment of human impact on Wood Lake,
Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Quaternary International 20:
51-70.
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