Public Water Supply

Like many deep cold water lakes in Maine, Floods Pond supplies about 4,000,000 gallons of water a day to the City of Bangor and surrounding towns. The outlet of Floods, called Tannery Brook was home to a breeding Brooke Trout population, but in order to stabilize the water level of the pond, it was dammed several years ago, which all but elimated the brooke trout population. Floods was also open to public fishing, but has since been closed.

History

Floods Pond can be found on the Green Lake USGS quad topo map. Floods Pond is a lake in Hancock County in the state of Maine. The latitude and longitude coordinates for this lake are 44.7440, -68.5003 and the altitude is 299 feet (91 meters).

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Feature Type: Lake
Latitude: 44.7440
Longitude: -68.5003
Elevation: 299 ft (91 m)

Floods is home to Sunapee trout
Native Range: Sunapee trout were native to Sunapee Lake, New Hampshire; Averill Pond, Vermont; Big Dan Pond, New Hampshire; and Floods Pond, Maine (Behnke, personal communication). Three of the four populations have become extinct and the Sunapee exists only in Floods Pond, Maine, near Bangor (Behnke, personal communication). The Sunapee populations have suffered due to hybridization with introduced lake trout S. namaycush (Behnke, personal communication). The blueback trout is native to northwestern Maine in the headwaters of the St. John and Penobscot rivers, specifically in Black Lake, Deboullie Lake, Gardner Lake, Purshineer pond in Arrostook County; Big Reed Pond, Rainbow Lake and Wadleigh Pond in Piscataquis County; Penobscot Lake in Somerset County (erroneously reported as in Piscataquis County); and in Bald Mountain Pond, also in Somerset County (Everhart and Waters 1965). Formerly existed in the Rangeley Lakes but extirpated from there circa 1904 (Kendall 1914b; Everhart and Waters 1965).