Lake Beseck

Reservoir in Middlefield, Connecticut

41°30′52″N 72°43′56″W / 41.51444°N 72.73222°W / 41.51444; -72.73222TypereservoirBasin countriesUnited StatesMax. length1 mi (1.6 km)Max. width0.25 mi (0.40 km)Surface area116 acres (47 ha)Max. depth24 ft (7.3 m)Surface elevation348 ft (106 m)Websitehttp://www.middlefieldct.org/lake-beseck-beach/

Lake Beseck, also known as Beseck Lake, is a body of water in Middlefield, Connecticut, measuring a little less than 1 mile in length and a quarter mile in width. It is owned by the Department of Environmental Protection and was created in 1846 when it was dammed. The initial dam, finished in 1848, was ten feet lower than the current one. The dam was raised in 1852 and in 1870, each time by five feet; it was rebuilt in 1938.

External links

Connecticut Government site on Lake Beseck
Atkins, History of Middlefield and Long Hill (1883)

Connecticut River watershed

Tributaries

Connecticut	Blackledge River Coginchaug River Connecticut River Duck River Eightmile River Falls River Farmington River Hockanum River Hubbard River Jeremy River Lieutenant River Mattabesset River Nepaug River Pameacha Creek Park River Pequabuck River Salmon River Scantic River
Massachusetts	Burnshirt River Chapel Brook Chicopee River Connecticut River Cranberry River Deerfield River East Brookfield River Farmington River Fall River Five Mile River Green River Hubbard River Manhan River Mill River (Northampton) Mill River (Springfield) Millers River Mirey Brook North Branch Millers River North Branch Westfield River North River Otter River Quaboag River Scantic River Seven Mile River Tarbell Brook Ware River Westfield River
New Hampshire	Ammonoosuc River Ashuelot River Blow-me-down Brook The Branch Cold River Connecticut River East Branch Mohawk River Gale River Great Brook Halls Stream Ham Branch Indian River Indian Stream Israel River Johns River Knox River Little River Little Sugar River Mascoma River Millers River Mink Brook Mirey Brook Mohawk River Nash Stream North Branch Gale River North Branch Millers River North Branch Sugar River North Branch Upper Ammonoosuc River Oliverian Brook Otter Brook Partridge Brook Perry Stream Phillips Brook Simms Stream South Branch Ashuelot River South Branch Gale River South Branch Israel River South Branch Sugar River Stocker Brook Sugar River Tarbell Brook Upper Ammonoosuc River West Branch Mohawk River West Branch Upper Ammonoosuc River Wild Ammonoosuc River Zealand River
Vermont	Black River Connecticut River Deerfield River Fall River Green River Halls Stream Leach Creek Moose River Nulhegan River Ompompanoosuc River Ottauquechee River Passumpsic River Rock River Saxtons River Utley Brook Waits River Wells River West River Whetstone Brook White River Williams River Winhall River

Lakes

Connecticut	Barkhamsted Reservoir Lake Beseck Lake Hayward Lake Pocotopaug
Massachusetts	Brooks Pond Browning Pond Lake Monomonac Quabbin Reservoir Lake Wyola
New Hampshire	Ashuelot Pond Back Lake Canaan Street Lake Cedar Pond Christine Lake Comerford Reservoir Connecticut Lakes Crystal Lake Dublin Pond Eastman Pond Echo Lake Lake Francis (Murphy Dam) Goose Pond Grafton Pond Granite Lake Lakes of the Clouds Little Sunapee Lake Mascoma Lake McIndoes Reservoir Lake Monomonac Moore Reservoir Pearly Lake Silver Lake Spofford Lake Lake Sunapee Surry Mountain Lake Lake Tarleton
Vermont	Ball Mountain Lake Comerford Reservoir Harriman Reservoir Harvey's Lake McIndoes Reservoir Moore Reservoir North Hartland Lake Lake Rescue Townshend Lake

Towns

Connecticut	Chester Cromwell Deep River East Haddam East Hampton East Hartford East Windsor Enfield Essex Glastonbury Haddam Hartford Higganum Lyme Middletown Moodus Old Lyme Old Saybrook Portland Rocky Hill South Windsor Suffield Thompsonville Wethersfield Windsor Windsor Locks
Massachusetts	Agawam Chicopee Deerfield Easthampton Gill Greenfield Hadley Hatfield Holyoke Longmeadow Millers Falls Montague Northampton Northfield South Hadley Springfield Sunderland Turners Falls West Springfield Whately
New Hampshire	Bath Charlestown Chesterfield Claremont Clarksville Colebrook Columbia Cornish Dalton Groveton Hanover Haverhill Hinsdale Lancaster Lebanon Littleton Lyme Monroe Northumberland Orford Piermont Pittsburg Plainfield Stewartstown Stratford Walpole West Lebanon Westmoreland Woodsville
Quebec	East Hereford
Vermont	Ascutney Barnet Beecher Falls Bellows Falls Bloomfield Bradford Brattleboro Brunswick Canaan Concord Dummerston Fairlee Gilman Guildhall Hartford Hartland Lemington Lunenburg Maidstone Newbury Norwich Putney Rockingham Ryegate Springfield Thetford Vernon Waterford Weathersfield Wells River Westminster White River Junction Wilder Windsor

Crossings

Canals and reservoirs of Connecticut

Canals

Reservoirs

Connecticut River Watershed	Lake Beseck Shenipsit Lake
Housatonic River Watershed	Candlewood Lake Hop Brook Lake Lake Zoar
Pequonnock River Watershed	Success Lake
Saugatuck River Watershed	Aspetuck Reservoir Saugatuck Reservoir
Thames River Watershed	Killingly Pond Mansfield Hollow Lake Quaddick Reservoir West Thompson Lake
Others	Hemlock Reservoir Higganum Reservoir Kohanza Reservoir Lake Gaillard Lake Lillinonah West Hartford Reservoir

Lakes and ponds of Connecticut by drainage system

Lakes

Byram River Watershed	Converse Lake
Connecticut River Watershed	Lake Beseck Lake Hayward Lake Pocotopaug Shenipsit Lake
Farm River Watershed	Lake Saltonstall
Hammonasset River Watershed	Deer Lake
Housatonic River Watershed	Bantam Lake Candlewood Lake Crystal Lake Highland Lake Hop Brook Lake Lake Quassapaug Lake Waramaug Lake Zoar Twin Lakes
Pequonnock River Watershed	Great Hollow Lake Pinewood Lake Success Lake
Quinnipiac River Watershed	Lake Whitney
Thames River Watershed	Ashford Lake Gardner Lake Lake Chaffee Mansfield Hollow Lake Mashapaug Lake West Thompson Lake
Others	Lake Gaillard Lake Lillinonah Squantz Pond Tuxis Pond