This is a picture of the dam at Lake Elkhorn in Columbia. I have passed by this place hundreds of times, but before yesterday I had never stopped to walk around. Like every lake in Maryland, a state without any natural ones, Elkhorn is man-made.
It’s one of the many lakes in the town of Columbia that were built by and owned by the Columbia association. These lakes generally will have multiple neighborhoods built around them. However, despite the densely populated neighborhoods in which these lakes can be found, it seems to me as though the planners made great efforts to keep the the lakes surrounded by trees, playgrounds, open grasslands and trails.
However, along almost almost every lake, and as featured in this picture, there is a break in the tree line and there are usually a few homes that disturb the illusion of isolation with their placement on the water.
I’ve found that, in this town, the most interesting feature of these small lakes are the dams. This one has a group of cascading steps which are a bit unusual for a dam. The water moves in a continuous flow through the center of the dam, though the entire area looks as though it was build for a flow of water 30 times as voluminous. It makes an interesting distraction.
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