The lake shorelines predominantly consist of bare sand or mowed grass and exotic and/or invasive vegetation.

Roy Rogers, senior vice president of strategic planning, said on a tour of the project that every tree, bush and inch of lake shoreline had been calculated beforehand.

The Etobicoke River turned and ran parallel to the lake shoreline for about a mile to its mouth, prior to the re-alignment of the river in the late 1940s (as it is today).

Before the American settlement of the Chicago area, the lake shoreline fluctuated from year to year as storm waves eroded parts of the shore and built up the shore elsewhere.

The lowered lake shoreline revealed the Celtic settlement of La Tène dating back to around 450 BC.

In 2011 a proposal was launched to build the Australia Forum, a major convention centre complex, on the lake shoreline in Acton.

The lake shoreline is heavily developed and homesites cover almost the entire shoreline.

Ridge Radio takes its name from the geographic feature that runs through the town of Oakville, the old lake Iroquois shoreline.

However, the lake shoreline provides habitats for beaver, raccoon, opossum, and a number of visiting songbirds.

Currently, not only do small groups continue to fell Acacia trees, but they go as far as to remove the salty soil from the lake shoreline and sell it.