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Indi Lake is a man-made lake in central
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, Canada, south of
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in the Rural Municipality of Dundurn No. 314. The lake was created for irrigation and recreation in 1967 by a dam located at its south end. The lake is part of a greater irrigation and aqueduct system built in the 1960s in Saskatchewan and was named after Indi, an unincorporated railway point nearby on the
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(CNR). The lake sits in the Blackstrap Coulee, which is long and consists of two lakes,
Blackstrap Lake Blackstrap Lake is a man-made reservoir in central Saskatchewan, Canada, south of Saskatoon in the Rural Municipality of Dundurn No. 314. The lake was created as a reservoir in 1967, as part of the Saskatoon South East Water Supply System. Bl ...
and Indi Lake. The lakes are connected by an aqueduct system that begins at
Lake Diefenbaker Lake Diefenbaker is a reservoir and bifurcation lake in the southern part of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was formed by the construction of the Gardiner Dam and the Qu'Appelle River Dam across ...
. Indi Lake is the shallower of the two lakes and has a more marsh-like bottom; both lake beds were farmed during dry seasons prior the dams being constructed. A short creek at the south end of the lake connects it to
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. Indi Lake is part of the Blackstrap Coulee (SK 078)
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(IBA) of Canada. The CN Railway bisects the lake and Highway 11 runs past the lake to the north.


Aqueducts and dams on Indi Lake and Blackstrap Lake

The Blackstrap North Dam (with a height of and length of ) is operated by
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and was constructed in 1967; the dam stores water to supply the village of Thode, the Nutrien Allan potash mine (via the Bradwell Reservoir) and the Mosaic Colonsay potash mine (via the Zelma Reservoir). The Blackstrap South Dam (with a height of and length of ) is also operated by Saskatchewan Water Security Agency and was also constructed in 1967. The dams at Indi and Blackstrap lake and the channel that brings water from Indi to Blackstrap Lake are part of a much larger system that brings water from the
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through a series of aqueducts to the area. The aqueduct system starts at the
Gardiner Dam The Gardiner Dam on the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatchewan is the third largest embankment dam in Canada and one of the largest embankment dams in the world. Construction on Gardiner Dam and the smaller Qu'Appelle River Dam was started ...
at
Lake Diefenbaker Lake Diefenbaker is a reservoir and bifurcation lake in the southern part of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was formed by the construction of the Gardiner Dam and the Qu'Appelle River Dam across ...
and supplies water downstream to other reservoirs as well, including
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,
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, and Bradwell Reservoirs.


See also

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List of lakes of Saskatchewan This is a list of lakes of Saskatchewan, a province of Canada. The largest and most notable lakes are listed at the start, followed by an alphabetical listing of other lakes of the province. Larger lake statistics "The total area of a lake ...
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List of dams and reservoirs in Canada A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
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References

{{Authority control Lakes of Saskatchewan Dundurn No. 314, Saskatchewan Dams in Saskatchewan Important Bird Areas of Saskatchewan Dams completed in 1967