Lake Munson

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| location = Leon County, Florida

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| type = Impoundment

| inflow = Munson Slough

| outflow = Munson Slough

| catchment = 69.3 mi² (179.5 km²)

| basin_countries = United States

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| area = 255 acres (103 ha)

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| cities = Tallahassee

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Lake Munson is a shallow reservoir on the southeast side of Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida.

Historically known as Munson's Mill Pond as early as the 1840s, in 1950 a permanent dam was constructed.{{cite web | url= http://abc.eznettools.net/mcglynnlabs/Munson2003.pdf | title= Lake Munson | first= Sean E. | last= McGlynn | year= 2003 | work= Leon County Lakes Ecology | at= Section 8 | accessdate= 3 April 2010}} From 1934 to 1984, Lake Munson received outflow from the Tallahassee waste water system, leading in 1982 to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection classifying the lake as hypereutrophic and as the seventh most degraded lake in Florida.

Cypress and willow trees line the lake, and egrets, wood storks, and limpkin are often found foraging along the shoreline, often on invasive apple snails.J. van Dyke, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, personal communication, In: Benson, A. J. 2008. Pomacea insularum. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL. <{{cite web|url=https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID%3D2599 |title=NAS - Species FactSheet |accessdate=2014-02-14 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090510092659/http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactSheet.asp?speciesID=2599 |archivedate=2009-05-10 }}> Revision Date: 8/14/2007. Bass fishing in the lake can be excellent, and a boat ramp is provided at the Gil A. Waters Lake Munson Preserve Park,{{Cite web | url= http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/18028214.html?storySection=story | title= Lake Munson Preserve Renamed | first= Andrea | last= Candrian |date=22 April 2008| publisher= WCTV | accessdate= 3 April 2010}} with another located at the dam.{{cite web | url= http://www.visittallahassee.com/great_outdoors/lakes/lake_munson/ | title= Lake Munson | publisher= Visit Tallahassee | accessdate= 3 April 2010|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204234125/http://www.visittallahassee.com/great_outdoors/lakes/lake_munson/|archivedate=2008-12-04}}