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Big Pool was created by the C&O Canal Company as a way to cut costs in digging out the canal bed. The natural geography of the area allowed the canal to fill it with water creating a large lake with stop gates at either end to protect the entire wide water area from draining completely in case of a break in the prism up of downstream.