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Lake Hopatcong is the largest freshwater body in New Jersey, United States, about 4 square miles (10 km 2) in area.Located 30 miles (48 km) from the Delaware River and 40 miles (64 km) from Manhattan, New York City, the lake forms part of the border between Sussex and Morris counties in the state's northern highlands region.
A deep-water oxygenation system could be in the cards for Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey's largest lake, as stakeholders seek to stifle the kind of harmful algal blooms that effectively closed it in 2019.
Lake Hopatcong is a census-designated place (CDP) [5] in Jefferson Township, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. It includes communities on the northeast side of Lake Hopatcong, the largest freshwater body in the state. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 10,232. [2]
Hopatcong (/ h oʊ ˈ p æ t k ɒ ŋ / hoh-PAT-kong) is a borough in Sussex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 14,362, [10] [11] a decrease of 785 (−5.2%) from the 2010 census count of 15,147, [20] [21] which in turn reflected a decline of 741 (−4.7%) from the 15,888 counted in the 2000 census.
Hopatcong State Park is a state park in the Landing section of Roxbury Township, New Jersey, United States.Operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry, the park consists of two parcels of land: one that encompasses Lake Hopatcong and some of its southwestern shore, and another that encompasses Lake Musconetcong about one mile to the west-southwest.
The lake's watershed covers 14,000 acres (57 km 2). Lake Musconetcong is downstream of Lake Hopatcong, the largest lake in New Jersey and is part of its watershed. The Lake Musconetcong Regional Planning Board has five representatives from each of the five local municipalities, Morris and Sussex counties, and from the State of New Jersey. [4]
Source of the river at the Lake Hopatcong Dam. It rises out of Lake Hopatcong, on the border between the borough of Hopatcong in Sussex County and the township of Roxbury in Morris County. It flows through Lake Musconetcong, then flows southwest, through Hackettstown, past Stephensburg and New Hampton, passing south of Washington then along the ...
The Lake Hopatcong Station upon opening in 1911. In 1910, the DL&W began building a new Lake Hopatcong Station south of the bridges in anticipation of the opening of the Lackawanna Cut-Off to the north. [1] [11] Completed for $28,500, and opened on May 28, 1911, [12] [13] the new station had a main building on Landing Road and two large ...