Echo Lake (Charleston, Vermont)
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Echo Lake is located in the town of Charleston
in Orleans County, Vermont
, an area known as the Northeast Kingdom
. It is one of only two deep, cold, and oligotroph
ic lakes in the Clyde River system. The first Surveyor General of Vermont, Whitelaw, gave it the name of Echo Pond because when any sound was produced in its vicinity it was reverberated in various directions, producing a series of echoes.
The freshwater lake covers 530 acres (2.1 km²) and is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) at its widest; its maximum depth is 129 feet (39.3 m). The lake is fed by the outlet from Lake Seymour. The lake drains into empties into the Clyde River
, Lake Memphremagog
and, eventually, Canada's St. Lawrence River.
A dam is used for hydroelectric power. Construction was completed in 1922. It is owned by Citizens Utilities Company. The dam is concrete. The core is homogeneous concrete. The foundation is rock. The height is 16 feet (4.9 m) by 120 feet (36.6 m). Maximum discharge is 693 ft3 per second. Its capacity is 5000 acre.ft. Normal storage is 3180 acre.ft. It drains an area of 24 square miles (62.2 km²).
The dam was reconstructed on 1984.
The lake supports a coldwater fishery. There are wild lake trout. At also has rainbow trout (wild and stocked), brook trout (stocked), rainbow smelt, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, chain pickerel, longnose sucker, white sucker, various species of minnow and probably others uncataloged.
Charleston, Vermont
Charleston is a town in Orleans County, Vermont, United States. The population was 895 at the 2000 census. The town contains three unincorporated villages: Charleston, East Charleston and West Charleston.-Town:* Selectman - Tom Jensen...
in Orleans County, Vermont
Orleans County, Vermont
Orleans County is one of the four northernmost counties in the U.S. state of Vermont. It borders Canada. In 2010, the population was 27,231. Its county seat is Newport. As in the rest of New England, few governmental powers have been granted to the county...
, an area known as the Northeast Kingdom
Northeast Kingdom
The Northeast Kingdom is a term used to describe the northeast corner of the U.S. state of Vermont, comprising Essex, Orleans and Caledonia Counties and having a population of 62,438. In Vermont, the written term "NEK" is often used. The term is attributed to the late George D. Aiken, former...
. It is one of only two deep, cold, and oligotroph
Oligotroph
An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients. They may be contrasted with copiotrophs, which prefer nutritionally rich environments...
ic lakes in the Clyde River system. The first Surveyor General of Vermont, Whitelaw, gave it the name of Echo Pond because when any sound was produced in its vicinity it was reverberated in various directions, producing a series of echoes.
The freshwater lake covers 530 acres (2.1 km²) and is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.75 miles (1.2 km) at its widest; its maximum depth is 129 feet (39.3 m). The lake is fed by the outlet from Lake Seymour. The lake drains into empties into the Clyde River
Clyde River (Vermont)
The Clyde River is a tributary of Lake Memphremagog, over long, in northern Vermont in the United States. It is the easternmost of the four major rivers in Orleans County. It is the most powerful of the four within Orleans County, powering several turbines at damsites...
, Lake Memphremagog
Lake Memphremagog
Lake Memphremagog is a fresh water glacial lake located between Newport, Vermont, United States and Magog, Quebec, Canada. The lake is long with 73 percent of the lake's surface area in Quebec, where it drains into the Magog River. However, three-quarters of its watershed, , is in Vermont. The...
and, eventually, Canada's St. Lawrence River.
A dam is used for hydroelectric power. Construction was completed in 1922. It is owned by Citizens Utilities Company. The dam is concrete. The core is homogeneous concrete. The foundation is rock. The height is 16 feet (4.9 m) by 120 feet (36.6 m). Maximum discharge is 693 ft3 per second. Its capacity is 5000 acre.ft. Normal storage is 3180 acre.ft. It drains an area of 24 square miles (62.2 km²).
The dam was reconstructed on 1984.
The lake supports a coldwater fishery. There are wild lake trout. At also has rainbow trout (wild and stocked), brook trout (stocked), rainbow smelt, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, chain pickerel, longnose sucker, white sucker, various species of minnow and probably others uncataloged.