NH-Lovewell+Pond


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Hillsborough County
Nashua =Lovewell Pond= Nashua, New Hampshire 03062 Lovewell Pond Association website Lovewell Pond map

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Lovewell Pond, Nashua
Coordinates: 42.7048305, -71.5123272 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Lovewell Pond
Lovewell Pond is the second largest pond in Fryeburg (Kezar Pond is the largest). It is located in the southern area of Fryeburg just east of the Village. It is maintained by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and
 * is approximately 1,120 acres in size
 * has an elevation of 357 feet above sea level
 * has a drainage area calculated at 3,101 acres
 * has a maximum depth of 45 feet
 * supports a population of brown trout as well as other warmer water species such as smallmouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, pickerel, eels, white sucker, long nose sucker, and hornpout
 * has about 75-80 buildings along the shoreline, with approximately 35 others with access rights to the shoreline

Fight Brook, Mill/Wards Brook, and several smaller unnamed streams flow into the Pond. There is an outlet to the Saco River in the southeastern section of the Pond. There is also a large flood plain in this area along with associated wetlands. Because of these features, Lovewell Pond is subject to flooding when the Saco River Floods. During these floods, the outlet of Lovewell Pond reverses direction and actually flows into the pond.

This flooding phenomenon has caused a delta to form, composed of sands carried in by the flood waters from the sandy bottom of the Saco. Waves help to form sandbars along with these levees. The channel of the outlet meanders through these sand deposits.

At the north end of the Pond is an Outwash Plain Pondshore, which is a natural plant community that is critically imperiled in the State Of Maine. Within this plant community are two rare plant species. From Lovewell Pond Association website

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