# Could this become an oxbow lake?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-become-an-oxbow-lake/832265 "2019-04-09T04:53:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-become-an-oxbow-lake/832265/21 "2019-04-12T14:12:13Z")

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I think so, and the hated eminent domain taking farms that have been in families for generations.

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**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-become-an-oxbow-lake/832265/22 "2019-04-12T14:44:55Z")

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> [@tampora](#):
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> That area, as well as anything 1/4 to 1/8th of a mile from the river, is all water during every flood year. There’s never been any new river routes or major sediment relocation in my 40 years here that I’ve been aware of. I’m always waiting for the river parks to dry out every season for the four disc golf courses that hug the Red River to become playable. Any remarkable change in topology would have been well-known.

Same goes up in Winnipeg. You’d think that the [Kingston Crescent](https://goo.gl/maps/1RnPBsxJavT2) neighbourhood would be an incipient oxbow — and in fact it was completely inundated during the 1950 flood — but as far as I know the river’s course hasn’t changed since the area was settled.

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