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Old 03-09-2018, 08:12 AM
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yes, Lake Sumter is man made. The bridge was built on dry land. There may have been a body of water there at some point, but it was a peat mine up to the time the villages started building in that area. The water is stormwater runoff, mostly, and the stream is created with pumps.
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