Barber Pond
Hartford County, Connecticut9 acresView mapDirections
No nutrient or algae sampling on record from CT DEEP for this lake.
- Limited data
Barber Pond in Hartford County, Connecticut has water-quality measurements published by CT DEEP, shown here as reported. Surface area: 9.4 acres.
Barber Pond is a 9-acre lake in Hartford County, Connecticut.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, your state environmental agency, last sampled 2024-07-17. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Barber Pond is safe to swim in today is a call for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Barber Pond
These are the measurements CT DEEP publishes for Barber Pond, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
No clarity data.
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Lake Details
Surface area
9 acres
No bathymetric survey has been published for Barber Pond, so its depth is not documented here.
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Reservoir Info (USACE NID)
Barber Pond is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Barber Pond Dam (completed 1955), built primarily for recreation on the Mill Brook; earth-type dam, 11 ft tall and 200 ft long.
- Surface area
- 9.4 ac
- Normal storage
- 66 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 66 ac-ft
- Drainage area
- 1.8 sq mi
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- Connecticut DEEP
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID CT00269 · Operator website
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Frequently asked questions about Barber Pond
Where is Barber Pond?
- Barber Pond is a lake in Hartford County, Connecticut. Its water-quality measurements are published by CT DEEP and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Barber Pond?
- Barber Pond in Hartford County, Connecticut has water-quality measurements published by CT DEEP, shown here as reported. Surface area: 9.4 acres.
Is Barber Pond safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
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Where this data comes from
8 measurements from 4 monitoring stations, 2024. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-21.
Collected and reported by
- Farmington River Watershed Association (Volunteer)
FRWA8 samples · 2024
EPA condition classes from the National Lakes Assessment (EPA 841-R-24-006, Table 6-3), applied by ecoregion. See where the data comes from and data sources.