Image: Postcard, "Lake Terramuggus, Marlborough, Conn." From the Hall Beach, the southwest corner of the lake. c. 1955.
Description: Terramuggus Lake is town-owned. It has an area of 83 acres, a maximum depth of 43 feet and a mean depth of 21.4 feet. Homes have been built around most of the lake, and much of the remaining area is used for municipal or lake association beaches. The lake has a public boat launch open to Marlborough residents, but motors greater than 3.3 hp are banned. Terramuggus is an oligotrophic lake with low diversity and low abundance of aquatic plants. Only seven submerged species were found in the lake during a July 2004 survey, all of them native plants. Plants grew sparsely in widely scattered patches; some areas supported filamentous algae or Charaphyte, but no plants or algae at all grew on much of the lake bottom.
Sources: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station website: http://www.ct.gov/caes/cwp/view.asp?a=2799&q=376144
Image from the Historical Collection at the Richmond Memorial Library
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