Sippo Lake is a 99 acre lake that offer fishing and kayaking.
According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Sippo is the largest public natural lake in Stark County!
This Earthcache explores the sediment and silt at Sippo.
Through the years Sippo has had sediment and silt fill up the lake so much so that until it was dredged in the late 1990s the maximum depth was 4 feet.
The sediment formed and deposited from a Glacial Drift in Ohio.
The soil is a mixture of gravel,clay and sand.
The clay was formed from sediments from glaciers from the ice age in this part of Ohio.
The soil in this area is hydric and clay that makes this unique because in the same park close by are wetlands!
The bedrock is both Pennsylvanian and Mississippian made up of limestone,shale and sandstone around the lake.
There is also limestone that impacts part of lake both crushed limestone and bigger stones the former contributing to the sediment.
There are many causes why this happens and one of the main culprits are storms which cause dirt,gravel and sand to fill the lake.
Local teachers and students have become involved to think of ways to solve this problem and one of the ways was park managers setting up a monitoring station that is partially submerged.
At the posted coordinates please answer the following questions.
1: Where you are standing how deep do you estimate the lake to be as far as you can see?
2: Do you see any evidence of silt? If so describe what you see.
3: What do you think would be a good way to manage the sediment and silt?Can it be prevented?
Optional:Please include a picture in online log of lake.
Permission was received for this Earthcache from
James Woodworth Natural Resource Specialist.
sources:Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Monitor.