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Sebago Lake was linked to Portland harbor by the Cumberland and Oxford Canal in 1832. The outlet to the Presumpscot River was controlled for the canal by the Eel Weir Dam and the Head Dam, owned and operated by the Oriental Powder Company after the canal was replaced by a railroad [7] and by the S. D. Warren Paper Mill after 1878. [2] [8]
At 310 acres (1.3 km 2), Lake Sebago, near Sloatsburg, is the largest lake in Harriman State Park in the U.S. state of New York.The name is Algonquian for "big water". It is located just south of Lake Kanawauke and is accessible via Seven Lakes Drive and the Palisades Interstate Parkway.
There are seven dams impeding the flow of water as it makes its way from Sebago Lake to the ocean, some of which produce hydroelectric power 1) Eel Weir Dam (National Inventory of Dams ID number 00070, [12] (also called the Headgates Dam) controls outflow from Sebago Lake (not to be confused with the Eel Weir Hydroelectric Project at 138 Middle ...
Oriental Powder Company employees assumed control of the former canal dam at Sebago Lake when the canal locks ceased operations; but water users in Westbrook, Maine, were unsatisfied with timing of water releases. Court action was initiated in January 1877, following a drought.
If one takes a landscape picture from that summit, these lakes span the distance from the Piscataquis Mountains in the west to North Twin dam on Elbow Lake in the east. It is the fifth-largest lake system in Maine, exceeded only by Moosehead Lake at 74,890 acres (303 km 2 ), Sebago Lake at 28,771 acres (116 km 2 ), Chesuncook Lake at 23,070 ...
The deepest part of the lake is approximately 70 feet (21 m). Panther Pond is connected to two lakes. The first, the much larger Sebago Lake is connected by a run-out of Panther Pond named Panther Run. The connection between the two lakes are separated by a dam that is opened annually to let species of fish to flow through.
Sebago Lake State Park is a public recreation area encompassing 1,342 acres (543 ha) on the north shore of Sebago Lake in the towns of Naples and Casco, Cumberland County, Maine. It opened in 1938 as one of Maine's original five state parks. [1] The mostly forested park is divided into east and west sections by the Songo River. [4]
USCGC Sebago (1930), a US Coast Guard ship, later used by the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Walney Y04 during World War II; USCGC Sebago (WHEC-42), a class of cutter used by the US Coast Guard; USS Sebago (1861), a steamer used by the Union Navy in the American Civil War