Lincoln Pond
Essex County, New York475 acresView mapDirections
NY DEC publishes the water-quality measurements for Lincoln Pond. Here is what has been measured.
- Impaired · Mercury
- 55 ft max depth
- Limited data
Lincoln Pond in Essex County, New York has water-quality measurements published by NY DEC, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 15.1 ft visibility. Surface area: 475 acres.
Lincoln Pond is a 475-acre lake in Essex County, New York with an estimated average depth of about 55 feet.
Source: EPA Water Quality Portal sampling records, NYSDEC, last sampled 2020-09-11. Methodology: how these readings are compared.
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What Lincoln Pond is good for
From access and monitoring records, not editorial picks.
- Clear water15.1 ft of visibility
Swimming conditions
No readingLimited data
Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Lincoln Pond is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 4A) for mercury. Check local advisories before you swim.
Whether Lincoln 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 Lincoln Pond
These are the measurements NY DEC publishes for Lincoln Pond, shown as reported. The condition class beside each reading is the EPA National Lakes Assessment class for this lake’s ecoregion.
Crystal clear, you can see 15.1 ft down. TSI 38.
| Measure | Reading | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|
| Water clarity (Secchi depth) | 15.1ft | 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. | 38 | Oligotrophic OligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic |
Low nutrients, clear water. No reading is a swimming clearance.
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Lake Details
Max depth
~55 ft est.
Surface area
475 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 Lincoln Pond.
Lake Size & Watershed
Watershed (drainage) area
13 sq mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Shoreline
6.9 mi
HydroLAKES / HydroSHEDS
Elevation
1,024 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)
Lincoln Pond is a man-made reservoir impounded by the Kingdom Dam (completed 1911), built primarily for recreation on the BLACK RIVER; concrete-type dam, 24 ft tall and 255 ft long.
- Surface area
- 475 ac
- Normal storage
- 3,920 ac-ft
- Max storage
- 4,480 ac-ft
- Hazard class
- High
- Owner
- NYS DEC DIVISION OF LANDS & FORESTS
Source: USACE National Inventory of Dams, NID ID NY00218 · Operator website
EPA Impairment Status
Lincoln Pond is officially listed as impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) in the 2022 EPA reporting cycle (IR category 4A).
Causes of impairment
A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) plan has been approved.
Source: EPA ATTAINS assessment unit NY1004-0090 · Official waterbody report
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Frequently asked questions about Lincoln Pond
Where is Lincoln Pond?
- Lincoln Pond is a lake in Essex 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 Lincoln Pond?
- Lincoln Pond in Essex County, New York has water-quality measurements published by NY DEC, shown here as reported. Water clarity: 15.1 ft visibility. Surface area: 475 acres.
Is Lincoln Pond safe to swim in?
- Nutrient and algae readings are not a swimming clearance. Lincoln Pond is listed impaired under Clean Water Act §303(d) (IR 4A) for mercury. Check local advisories before you swim.
How deep is Lincoln Pond?
- No published bathymetric survey covers Lincoln Pond, so its depth has not been measured. The HydroLAKES global model estimates an average depth of about 55 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 475 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
Impairment status from EPA ATTAINS 303(d) database
Lake size & watershed from HydroLAKES (HydroSHEDS)