Candlewood Lake, which is Connecticut’s largest lake, was man made in December 1928 on private property near where Wood Creek and the Rocky River met with the Housatonic River. Connecticut Light and Power Company had acquired the entire valley for a pumped storage hydroelectric reservoir to serve a generating plant in New Milford which powers electric plants in Southbury and Monroe, it took 2.2 billion gallons of water to fill it's 5,420-acre land which made the lake about 11 miles long, 2 miles wide at its widest point, over 60 miles of shoreline and having an average depth around 30 feet with the maximum depth being around 85 feet and the lake level being about 428 feet above sea level. Where Bass fishermen hold more than 100 tournaments a year.
Lake Lillinonah (1,900 acres) is a Housatonic River fed lake and is man made friends of the lake Bantam Lake is the largest natural lake in the state of Connecticut at 916 acres.
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