WATERSHED

LOCATION

WATERSHED Sub-Basin 1 (Upper Delaware River) Van Auken Creek Watershed- D (Lackawaxen River)

LAKE WATERSHED (Including Lake Basin)

LAKE

TYPE

DAMN

UTILIZATION

ELEVATION

INLET

OUTLET

SURFACE AREA

SHORELINE LENGTH

MAX DEPTH

MEAN DEPTH

CAPACITY

Glaciated Low Plateau Section of the Appalachian Plateaus Province

553.06 Acres
Glacial Origin: Originally Natural: Damn Flooded Concrete Spillway & Catch (100x15x2) Feet Multiple Use Originally a Feeder for the D&H Canal

1415
Feet Above Sea Level

ELK LAKE WATERSHED DATA AND LAKE MORPHOMETRY

Spring Fed & Stream Drainage from Adjacent Wetlands

Tributary to Van Auken Creek, A High Quality- Trout Stocking Fishery (HQ-TSF)

163.22 Acres

2.53 Miles

61.8 Feet

24.7 Feet

1,319,010,796 Gallons

PFO1/4E PFO1/4E PFO1/4E

PFO1E

PFO1/4E/PSS1E

PUB3H

PUB3F

PFO1Eb/PEM1Eb

Tributary to Van Auken Creek (HQ-TSF) (R4SB3J)

PFO4C

PUB3Hb/PEM1Bb

PFO4/1B/PSS1B

PEM2E

5 Tributary to Elk Lake (HQ-TSF) (R4SB3J)

10 15
PSS1E/PEM2E

20

25
PFO1B/PEM1B

30

L2AB3/4Hh

35

40

45
PSS1C

L2AB3/4Hh

50

55 Tributary to Elk Lake (HQ-TSF) (R4SB3J) 62

PUB3Hb/PEM1Bb

60

PFO1Bb/PSS1Bb

L1UB3Hh

PUB3H
PFO4/1C

PSS1Eb/PEM2Eb

PEM5B

PFO1E/PSS1E/PEM2E PSS1Eb

PSS3BA

PSS1BA/PEM5BA PUBHb PUBH

PEM2E

The North Shoreline

The South Shoreline

The West Shoreline

The East Shoreline

THE ELK LAKE WATERSHED

Waymart, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

500

1,000

2,000 Feet

Legend
WETLAND(Beaver Impoundment) WETLAND STREAM POND
Feet

31
Feet
BATHYMETRIC SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED IN: 2010 WETLAND IDENTIFICATION AND DELINEATION: 2011

62

WATERSHED

SOURCES: 2005 NATIONAL WETLAND INVENTORY, U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE 2008- DCNR PAMAP PROGRAM, PADEP STREAMS CH93, PA NATURAL HERITAGE INVENTORY, DIVERSITY INDEX (PNDI)

GIS MAPPING, BATHYMETRIC & WETLAND SURVEYS WERE CONDUCTED BY JASON J. PALONIS, PWS-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST

DATE: 01/05/2012

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