Bellevue Lake

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Bellevue Lake
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Bellevue Lake
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Bellevue Lake
Location New Castle County, Delaware,
United States
Coordinates 39°46′50″N75°29′19″W / 39.780437°N 75.488580°W / 39.780437; -75.488580 (Lake Deforest) Coordinates: 39°46′50″N75°29′19″W / 39.780437°N 75.488580°W / 39.780437; -75.488580 (Lake Deforest)
Type Reservoir
Primary inflows Stoney Creek
Basin  countriesUnited States
Surface area11 acres (4.5 ha)

Bellevue Lake is a reservoir in New Castle County, Delaware [1] north of Bellevue State Park near Bellevue. Created by the impounding of Stoney Creek in 1936, [2] it has a capacity of 100 millions gallons of water. [3] Bellevue Lake is a remnant of the Old Bellevue Quarry, [4] which was allowed to fill. [5] (The harvested stone was used to build the Delaware Breakwater [6] ) It is 0.2 miles (0.32 km) miles across [7] and covers 11 acres (4.5 ha). The reservoir supplied the Wilmington and Suburban Water Comopany, which was founded in 1933 and has since absorbed into Suez Water. [8] Located in a mostly suburban area north of Wilmington, it is surrounded by forest and is one of the last natural places in northern Delaware.

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  8. "Local projects". Suez. Retrieved March 30, 2022.