Riss Lake is a small

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

in the center of the neighborhood Riss Lake, in Parkville, Platte County,

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. Forests surround it, and it is bordered on one side by a highway, two sides by the neighborhood Riss Lake and on the last side by the Parkville Nature Reservation. The neighborhood Riss Lake has several pools, a park, a basketball court, a volleyball court and tennis courts. The lake was originally much smaller until a

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was built. White Aloe Branch, also known as White Branch, flows southwest about one mile before entering the reservoir, and also travels another mile southward through Parkville before reaching the

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* Reservoirs in Missouri Protected areas of Platte County, Missouri Buildings and structures in Platte County, Missouri Bodies of water of Platte County, Missouri Bodies of water of Kansas City metropolitan area {{PlatteCountyMO-geo-stub