Heidecke Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
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Heidecke Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1300 acres (526 ha) in Grundy County, Illinois
, United States
. It is an artificial cooling pond
excavated to enable the operation of the adjacent Collins Generating Station, owned and operated by Midwest Generation.
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, United States
United States
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. It is an artificial cooling pond
Cooling pond
A cooling pond is a man-made body of water primarily formed for the purpose of supplying cooling water to a nearby power plant or industrial facility such as a petroleum refinery, pulp and paper mill, chemical plant, steel mill or smelter...
excavated to enable the operation of the adjacent Collins Generating Station, owned and operated by Midwest Generation.