Lake Wallenpaupak

LAKE WALLENPAUPACK (Ind. deep, dead water), 31.1 m., formed in 1926 when a public utility company dammed Wallenpaupack Creek, is the largest body of water wholly within Pennsylvania, covering nine square miles and having an irregular 52-mile shoreline (fishing, boating, swimming, aquaplaning). The company controls a 500-foot strip around the lake to permit the raising and lowering of the water level. A flume 14 feet in diameter and more than three miles long, one of the largest in the United States, carries water to the 40,000 kilowatt hydroelectric plant. The highway crosses scum-covered WALLENPAUPACK CREEK, 32.5 m., with its high artificial banks.