# Winnebago Pool

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{{Short description|Lakes in Wisconsin, United States}}
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[[Image:Winnebago.jpg|thumb|300px|Much of the Winnebago Pool from space, July 1996. Lake Winnebago is in the center, with Big [Lake Butte des Morts](/source/Lake_Butte_des_Morts) just to the right of the center of the lake, and Lake Winneconne and Lake Poygan proceeding thence toward the right side of the image.  Lake Winnebago runs along a roughly north-south line, with the south end of the lake being toward the top of this image.]]
The '''Winnebago Pool''' is a collective name for a group of interconnected [lake](/source/lake)s in eastern [Wisconsin](/source/Wisconsin).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://basineducation.uwex.edu/foxwolf/water-quality/Introduction.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2009-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905191254/http://basineducation.uwex.edu/foxwolf/water-quality/Introduction.pdf |archive-date=2008-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The terminal point of this watershed is [Lake Winnebago](/source/Lake_Winnebago) itself, which has a surface elevation of 746 feet.  Besides Lake Winnebago, the Winnebago Pool includes Big [Lake Butte des Morts](/source/Lake_Butte_des_Morts), [Lake Poygan](/source/Lake_Poygan) and [Lake Winneconne](/source/Lake_Winneconne). After the waters reach Lake Winnebago, they exit through the [Lower Fox River](/source/Fox_River_(Green_Bay_tributary)) and over the next 39 miles, the river drops over 150 feet to reach the lower water level of [Green Bay](/source/Green_Bay_(Lake_Michigan)).

The lakes of the Winnebago pool combine to encompass over {{convert|166000|acre|km2|0}} and account for nearly 17% of the total surface water area in Wisconsin (not counting the [Great Lakes](/source/Great_Lakes)). The primary feed waters of the Winnebago Pool are the [Wolf River](/source/Wolf_River_(Fox_River)), [Upper Fox River](/source/Fox_River_(Green_Bay_tributary)) and [Fond du Lac River](/source/Fond_du_Lac_River_(Wisconsin)). Lakes Winnebago and Big Lake Butte des Morts (along with [Little Lake Butte des Morts](/source/Little_Lake_Butte_des_Morts) to the northeast) served as part of the [Fox-Wisconsin Waterway](/source/Fox-Wisconsin_Waterway). The [Butte des Morts](/source/Butte_des_Morts) region is part of the Winnebago Pool.

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