Moore Reservoir is an
impoundment on the
Connecticut River located in the communities of
Littleton, New Hampshire
Littleton is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,005 at the 2020 census. Situated at the northern edge of the White Mountains, Littleton is bounded on the northwest by the Connecticut River.
The main vil ...
;
Dalton, New Hampshire
Dalton is a town in Coös County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 933 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH– VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Dalton was incorporated in 1764 under the name "Chiswick ...
;
Waterford, Vermont
Waterford is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,268 at the 2020 census.
History
The town was formed by the Vermont charter on November 8, 1780, and was originally called Littleton, but the name was chang ...
; and
Concord, Vermont
Concord is a town in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,141 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Concord was chartered on September 15, 1780, to Reuben ...
. It occupies approximately .
[
It was created by the completion of the ]Moore Dam
Moore Dam is a major hydroelectric dam on the Upper Connecticut River between Grafton County, New Hampshire and Caledonia County, Vermont in the northeastern United States. The dam is located near Littleton, New Hampshire, and forms the Moo ...
in 1956, which caused the flooding of several villages, including Pattenville, New Hampshire, and old Waterford, Vermont
Waterford is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,268 at the 2020 census.
History
The town was formed by the Vermont charter on November 8, 1780, and was originally called Littleton, but the name was chang ...
. Moore Dam is now owned and operated by TransCanada Corporation
TC Energy Corporation (formerly TransCanada Corporation) is a major North American energy company, based in the TC Energy Tower building in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, that develops and operates energy infrastructure in Canada, the United States, ...
. With a capacity of 192 megawatts, it is the most productive of TransCanada's thirteen hydroelectric facilities in New England.
The lake is classified as a cold- and warmwater fishery, with observed species including brook trout, rainbow trout, brown trout, smallmouth and largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, bu ...
, chain pickerel
The chain pickerel (''Esox niger'') is a species of freshwater fish in the pike family (family Esocidae) of order Esociformes. The chain pickerel and the American pickerel (''E. americanus'') belong to the ''Esox'' genus of pike.
Taxonomy
Fren ...
, bullpout, northern pike
The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus ''Esox'' (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). They are known simply as a p ...
, and rock bass
The rock bass (''Ambloplites rupestris''), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, and black perch, is a freshwater fish native to east-central North America. This red eyed creature is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish fa ...
.
See also
*List of lakes in New Hampshire
This is a list of lakes and ponds in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services lists 944 lakes and impoundments in their ''Official List of Public Waters''. The water bodies that are listed include nat ...
*List of lakes in Vermont .
This is a list of lakes in Vermont. Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
The Vermont Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation establish the limits of ''Escherichia coli ...
References
Reservoirs in New Hampshire
Reservoirs in Vermont
Concord, Vermont
Waterford, Vermont
Lakes of Coös County, New Hampshire
Lakes of Grafton County, New Hampshire
Protected areas of Caledonia County, Vermont
Protected areas of Essex County, Vermont
Protected areas of Coös County, New Hampshire
Lakes of Caledonia County, Vermont
Lakes of Essex County, Vermont
Littleton, New Hampshire
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