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Second Connecticut Lake, known in the past as Lake Carmel, [4] is a 1,102-acre (446 ha) [2] water body in the town of Pittsburg, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of the village center. [5] The second lake is 228 feet (69 m) higher in elevation than the first lake, and shallower. Fish species include brook trout, landlocked salmon, and lake trout. [6]
Lake Lillinonah / ˌ l ɪ l ɪ ˈ n oʊ n ə / is a manmade lake located in Fairfield, Litchfield and New Haven counties of Western Connecticut, approximately 60 miles (97 km) northeast of New York City. [3] It is the second largest lake in Connecticut, smaller only than Candlewood Lake. [3]
Second Connecticut Lake: First Connecticut Lake: Perry Stream: ... This is a route-map template for the Connecticut River, a waterway in the United States.
Lake Washinee is about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) long, and under a quarter mile (0.4 km) wide of except for its squarish roughly 0.5 by 0.6 mile (0.8 by 1.0 km) southernmost section. Its deepest part is around 21 feet (6.4 m). Lake Washining is much rounder, and roughly 0.9 by 1.3 miles (1.5 by 2 km). It has a maximum depth of 80 feet (24 m).
The fairly shallow average depth of 78 feet (24 m) of today's Long Island Sound is the result of fine lake-bottom sediments deposited as glacial outwash slowed in Lake Connecticut. Suspended as rock flour, the fine sediments would have rendered Lake Connecticut a turquoise blue-green.
Lake Francis and Murphy Dam are named after Francis P. Murphy, [4] who served as the Governor of New Hampshire from 1937 to 1941. The lake covers nearly 2,000 acres (8 km 2 ), has a capacity of 131,375 acre-feet (162,049,000 m 3 ), [ 1 ] and has average and maximum depths of 40 feet (12 m) and 82 feet (25 m), respectively.
Mashapaug Lake is a 297-acre (1.20 km 2) lake surrounded by Bigelow Hollow State Park and Nipmuck State Forest in the town of Union in northeastern Connecticut. The lake has a maximum depth of 39.5 feet (12.0 meters), and an average depth of 15 feet (4.6 meters). Its normal surface elevation is 706 feet (215 m).
Most of Connecticut's rivers flow into Long Island Sound and from there the waters mix into the Atlantic Ocean. A few extremely eastern rivers flow into Block Island Sound. The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented from downstream to upstream under each larger stream's name.