Lake Kampeska is a 5,250-acre inland glacial lake in the US state of South Dakota.
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17 Facts About Lake Kampeska
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Lake Kampeska is connected to the Big Sioux River through a single inlet-outlet channel located on the northeast side.
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Lake Kampeska is well-known for its depictions in art from wildlife and nature artists such as Terry Redlin, John Greene, John Wilson, and Joshua Spies.
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Lake Kampeska is perhaps featured most prominently in the artworks of Terry Redlin and are displayed in the Redlin Art Center nearby in Watertown, South Dakota.
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Lake Kampeska's settlement predates Watertown and statehood of South Dakota.
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Towards the end of the 1870s, the northern shore of Lake Kampeska was designated by Arthur C Mellette and territorial officials to serve as the location of the Capitol Building.
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Name Lake Kampeska is not associated with founders of Watertown, the Kemp family.
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Lake Kampeska is a popular site for recreational activities including fishing, sail boating, biking, swimming, waterskiing, camping, and picnicking.
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Public access to Lake Kampeska has locations on the north, east, south, and west shores of the lake.
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Lake Kampeska has one state park, Sandy Shores, one county owned park, Memorial Park, and two city owned parks, Jackson Park and Stokes-Thomas City Park.
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Lake Kampeska is primarily managed as a Walleye and Smallmouth Bass fishery.
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Lake Kampeska contains black bullhead, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, carp, channel catfish, smallmouth bass, white bass, northern pike, sunfish, rock bass, walleye, white sucker, yellow bullhead, and yellow perch.
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Lake Kampeska briefly experienced problems with pollution from fertilizer and surface runoff until the 1990s.
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Weir installed on the inlet-outlet channel of Lake Kampeska is intended to slow the input of sediments to the lake basin.
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Conversely, when the water level in Lake Kampeska is higher than the Big Sioux River and above the weir, water exits Lake Kampeska through the v-notch.
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Lake Kampeska has experienced catastrophic flooding from rapid snow melts in recent years.
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In 1997, flooding of Lake Kampeska drew attention of the White House, sending then-US Vice President Al Gore to visit the flooding.
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