That's as reasonable a possibility as anything else. It's generally a mistake to take character dialogue too literally, at least if a story is well-written.
Online discussion about the body of water in question usually refers to it as a lake. Is anything mentioned specifically about it in Season One, when Ford is doing all his terraforming?
I'm starting to wonder if some of the characters we're seeing in "present time" are really themselves. Bernard goes into the CR4-DL, but who comes out?
I'm not 100 percent sure about Elsie, although that would be a stretch - as would Ashley.
For all the speculation about Delos - or Ford - substituting Host doppelgangers for real people, the only Host I can remember who has passed as a human among humans for any considerable length of time is Bernard - and he never was intended or required to carry off a ruse as Arnold to anyone who had met Arnold.
There's a bit of dialogue from "The Stray" that gets talked about a lot on other boards, in this context - the claim that Wyatt:
...Forces his men to wear the bones and flesh of their enemies. They're masks.
It's the men underneath them to be afraid of. Wyatt's got them so twisted around, they'll do anything for him. Kill anyone. Pain don't slow them. They don't fear death. They reckon they've already died and gone to hell.
The Hosts have been talked about or have talked about themselves in almost exactly those terms on a number of occasions, including the assertion (by Arnold) that the park would be Hell for the likes of Delores.
But then, it's metaphorical dialogue - not literal.
