- Center Lake - Reform Or Else - Animal Lovers - Responds To Young - Supports Obama - Animal Control Center Lake Editor, Times-Union: The Center Lake watershed has many atypical hydrologic features due to alterations that have taken place with regard to manipulation of surface water connections.Water enters Center Lake from groundwater contributions and springs.It also enters the lake from surface water contributions from Tippecanoe River and Lones Ditch (outlet from Pike Lake), Walnut Creek back-flow and through a storm sewer connection from Pike Lake.