KENT: i spoke with an irrigation district employee about that "lake." he said it is caused by seepage from the irrigation canal, and that last year when the water in the canal was shut off at the end of the irrigation season, the "reverse seepage" back toward the canal damaged the side of the canal. this year they have been experimenting with pumping water from that "lake" back into the canal, hoping to eliminate damage to the canal this year.

the employee didn't know if there were fish in that intermittent lake or not; it seems to me that if there were, they would have had to "seep" into the lake along with the water.