Sebago Lake
| Sebago Lake | |
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A beach in Sebago Lake State Park
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| Location | Cumberland County, Maine |
| Coordinates | 43°51′N 70°34′W / 43.850°N 70.567°WCoordinates: 43°51′N 70°34′W / 43.850°N 70.567°W |
| Lake type | oligotrophic |
| Primary outflows | Presumpscot River |
| Catchment area | 440 square miles (1,100 km2) |
| Basin countries | United States |
| Max. length | 12 mi (19 km) |
| Surface area | 30,513 acres (12,348 ha) |
| Average depth | 107 ft (33 m) |
| Max. depth | 316 ft (96 m) |
| Water volume | 3,224,233 acre·ft (3.977033×109 m3) |
| Residence time | 5.1 to 5.4 yrs |
| Shore length1 | 105 miles (169 km) |
| Surface elevation | 267 ft (81 m) |
| Islands | Frye Island |
| Settlements | Casco, Naples, Raymond, Sebago, Standish and Windham |
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| 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. | |
Sebago Lake is the deepest and second largest lake in the U.S. state of Maine. The lake is 316 feet (96 m) deep at its deepest point, with a mean depth of 101 feet (31 m), covers about 45 square miles (117 km2) in surface area, has a length of 12 miles (19 km) and a shoreline length of 105 miles (169 km). The surface is around 270 feet (82 m) above sea level, so the deep bottom is below the present sea level. It is located in Cumberland County, Maine, and bordered by the towns of Casco, Naples, Raymond, Sebago, Standish and Windham. The seasonally occupied town of Frye Island is on an island in the lake.
The lake is connected to Brandy Pond by the Songo River and eventually to Long Lake in Naples. The name comes from a local Native American tribe. The lake is drained primarily by the Presumpscot River. The lake and rivers were an early transportation corridor from the coast to the interior, and encouraged the first incorporated European settlement of interior Maine in 1762. Sebago Lake was linked to Portland harbor by the Cumberland and Oxford Canal in 1832. The outlet to the Presumpscot River was controlled for the canal by the Eel Weir Dam and the Head Dam, owned and operated by the Oriental Powder Company after the canal was replaced by a railroad and by the S. D. Warren Paper Mill after 1878.
The lake was a comparatively safe place for training military pilots from NAS Brunswick about flying over water; but several navy planes were lost over the lake during World War II. A Grumman TBF Avenger from the Lewiston Naval Auxiliary Air Facility ditched and sank near Raymond on 16 August 1943. Two low-flying British Vought Corsairs from Brunswick were lost after a mid-air collision over the lake near Raymond on 16 May 1944; and a third Corsair flew into the lake on July 16. In December 2014 the first Sebago Lake beach landing in the history of the world was made by a yellow Supercub.
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