Deep reservoirs with multiple level draw off towers can discharge deep cold water into the downstream river greatly reducing the size of any hypolimnion.
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Cold water is denser than warm water and the epilimnion generally consists of water that is not as dense as the water in the hypolimnion.
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As the hypolimnion of lakes gradually filled with sediments, oxygen depletion would promote the release of iron-bound phosphorus to the overlying water.
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As they grow and reproduce they absorb nutrients from the water, when they die they sink into the hypolimnion resulting in the epilimnion becoming depleted of nutrients.
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The extreme depths over most of its area causes the greater part of Loch Lomond to become stratified each summer and has characteristically low temperatures in the hypolimnion.
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At the bottom of lakes ( in the sediment or hypolimnion, methanogens use these compounds to derive energy, by producing methane, a procedure known as " methanogenesis ".
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As the temperature increases in the spring, the lake water divides into an upper half which is warm ( epilimnion ), while the lower half ( hypolimnion ) stays cold and lacking in oxygen.
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The northwest to southeast orientation of Uvas Reservoir is in line with prevailing winds which drive the warm surface layer ( epilimnion ) down into the cool bottom layer ( hypolimnion ), so that by late summer the bottom water is warm and anoxic.
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"' Lake stratification "'is the separation of lakes into three layers : 1 ) Epilimnion-top of the lake; 2 ) Metalimnion ( or thermocline )-middle layer that may change depth throughout the day; 3 ) and the Hypolimnion-the bottom layer.
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In all but the shallowest lakes, there are major changes in the chemical composition of lake water at different depths, especially during the summer months when many lakes stratify into a warm, well oxygenated upper layer ( " epilimnion " ) and a cool de-oxygenated lower layer " ( hypolimnion " ).
