Lake, Reservoir, Impoundment
An inland body of standing fresh or saline water that is generally too deep to permit submerged aquatic vegetation to take root across the entire body (cf: wetland). This site type includes an expanded part of a river, a reservoir behind a dam, and a natural or excavated depression containing a water body without surface-water inlet and/or outlet.
Surface Water Sites
Adapted from USGS Site Types.
http://wdr.water.usgs.gov/nwisgmap/help/sitetype.html
ODM2 SiteType Controlled Vocabulary
ODM2 Working Group
A vocabulary for describing the type of a data collection Site. To some extent, these types represent the ultimate feature of interest that the site was established to measure. For example, a Stream Site was established to measure properties of a Stream.