Lake Monomonac
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Lake Monomonac | |
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Location | Cheshire County, New Hampshire; Worcester County, Massachusetts |
Coordinates | |
Primary inflows | North Branch Millers River |
Primary outflows | North Branch Millers River |
Basin countries | United States |
Max. length | 2.7 miles (4.3 km) |
Max. width | 0.7 miles (1.1 km) |
Surface area | 594 acres (2.4 km²) |
Surface elevation | 318.5 meters |
Islands | Blueberry Island; Paradise Island |
Settlements | Rindge, New Hampshire; Winchendon, Massachusetts |
Lake Monomonac is an artificial lake that straddles the border between Rindge, New Hampshire and Winchendon, Massachusetts. It was created from a small pond in New Hampshire by the construction of dams on the North Branch of the Millers River, a part of the Connecticut River watershed.
Lake Monomonac is 594 acres (2.4 km²) in size with 410 acres (1.7 km²) in New Hampshire and the remaining 184 acres (0.7 km²) in Massachusetts[1]. The lake has a maximum recorded depth of twenty-five feet and an average depth of ten feet.