But Shafer is a smaller lake and has less water to give for the mussels — a depth of 10 feet of water, Koppelmann said. Shafer's water isn't intended to increase Freeman's levels, Koppelmann said.

Lake Shafer seems as though it’s always existed when in fact it was made. Along with Freeman Lake, it was created in 1923 by the backwater of the hydroelectric Norway dam on the Tippecanoe River ...