Barrett Pond
Putnam County, New York70 acresView mapDirections
NY DEC publishes the water-quality measurements for Barrett Pond. Here is what has been measured.
- 44 ft max depth
- Limited data
Barrett Pond in Putnam County, New York has water-quality measurements published by NY DEC, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 14.4 ft visibility. Surface area: 70 acres.
Barrett Pond is a 70-acre lake in Putnam County, New York with an estimated average depth of about 44 feet.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, NYSDEC, last sampled 2020-09-27. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
What Barrett Pond is good for
From access and monitoring records, not editorial picks.
- Clear water14.4 ft of visibility
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Barrett Pond is safe to swim in today is a call for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the county health department, who post current advisories. LakeQuality does not issue swimming clearances.
Water quality measurements for Barrett Pond
These are the measurements NY DEC publishes for Barrett Pond, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
Good clarity, visible to about 14.4 ft. TSI 39.
| Measure | Reading | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|
| Water clarity (Secchi depth) | 14.4ft | Measured, not scored How deep a black-and-white disk stays visible from the surface. Higher is clearer. |
| Total phosphorus | No reading The nutrient that most limits algae growth in freshwater. More phosphorus, more algae potential. | |
| Chlorophyll-a (algae) | No reading The green pigment in algae — a direct measure of how much algae is in the water. | |
| Trophic state (TSI)Carlson's 0–100 index of how much algae a lake can support, from clarity, phosphorus and chlorophyll-a. | 39 | Oligotrophic OligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic |
Low nutrients, clear water. No reading is a swimming clearance.
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Lake Details
Max depth
~44 ft est.
Surface area
70 acres
Depth marked “est.” is a modeled maximum from GLOBathy (Khazaei et al. 2022, CC0), not a measured survey. New York has not published bathymetry for Barrett Pond.
Lake Size & Watershed
Watershed (drainage) area
0 sq mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Shoreline
1.4 mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Elevation
791 ft
Size, shoreline, and watershed area from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS). Mean depth here is modelled, not surveyed — HydroLAKES v1.0 estimates lake depth from surrounding terrain rather than from soundings. Treat it as an approximation, and prefer a state bathymetric survey where one exists.
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Reservoir Info (USACE NID)
Barrett Pond is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Barrett Pond Dam (completed 1920), built primarily for recreation on the TR-WEST BRANCH RESERVOIR; masonry-type dam, 13 ft tall and 15 ft long.
- Surface area
- 70 ac
- Normal storage
- 260 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 340 ac-ft
- Hazard class
- Low
- Owner
- EMILY BOXER
All listed purposes: Recreation;Flood Risk Reduction.
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID NY01203 · Operator website
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Frequently asked questions about Barrett Pond
Where is Barrett Pond?
- Barrett Pond is a lake in Putnam County, New York. Its water-quality measurements are published by NY DEC and shown on this page as reported.
What is the water quality of Barrett Pond?
- Barrett Pond in Putnam County, New York has water-quality measurements published by NY DEC, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 14.4 ft visibility. Surface area: 70 acres.
Is Barrett Pond safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Barrett Pond?
- No published bathymetric survey covers Barrett Pond, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 44 feet, but that is a modelled estimate derived from surrounding terrain rather than a measurement on the water, so treat it as approximate. The lake covers 70 acres.
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Where this data comes from
8 measurements from 1 monitoring station, 2020. Retrieved from the EPA Water Quality Portal on 2026-08-02.
Collected and reported by
- North American Lake Management Society
NALMS8 samples · 2020
Monitoring station identifiers (1)
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.
Other records on this page
Lake size & watershed from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS)