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Oak, I do not mean to overlook the fact that the Oak Ridse
National Laboratory, which has control of the lnke, is not corryin:
on work.

Doctor Morgan's group, through the monitoring grourvs,

are continuing to do sampling studies of the work,

They are cozn-

tinuins to follow up on certain organises that live in the lake
in whicn they have cericain interests and follow up on the water
fowl.
Locking back over some of the thinss that have beer
accomplished in the White Oak Lake study, it scems to me thore
arc & few things that more or less scsn to be outstanding with
respect to wnaat little we know about then, For exanple, we dco
“not Hnow enough about the adult insects,

In fact, we

know only

too littis asout the larva insects that ave in the immediate

environment of the lake.

We are not too well acquainted with the

botton organism population,

It has boon my impression that our

bottcm organism population in White Cal tate has been rather
sparse,

We have no guarantee that that bottom orzanism vonula-

tion is going to be inproved, because I certainly would not stand
here and say this laze is now going to be free from silting tcnditions, because we can never tell when large-scale construction
and earth-moving operations will take place in the area which

will have vast influence on tne lake,
“However, the rate of sedimentation is rather low, and
at is running around 1 percent of the lake volune per year.
In regard to the shore line vegetation of the works,

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