Lake Sagamore Community Association

Kent, NY 10512

Lake Sagamore

Our Lake – A quick look underwater – a two-layered lake

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Lake Sagamore, with maximum depths of around 18 feet, is a persistently stratified lake. Every summer, a layer of warm, well-aerated, sunlit water forms on top of the cooler and thus heavier water at depth. The two layers mix somewhat during storms, when wind and rain move things around, but the disturbance never reaches the …

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Twentieth Century

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In the years since the farmers exited the area, forests have rapidly returned (although still not fully mature), bottom-lands have become reservoirs, and residential developments have replaced more accessible farms. It is said that the population of the Kent-Carmel area has only recently approached the numbers of 200 years ago. Yet, despite these changes Putnam …

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