:A little known lake.....
This is one location where PPG dumped hexavalent chromium in the 1950's and 1960's to make their famous paint and coating by-products. :goat:
Pancake Creek Lake used to be closed to the public, somebody took down the signs this Spring, you access it from the RR tracks \Ohio Erie Towpath Bike trail near Center Road just north of Clinton.
There are usually one or two people fishing there.
It's not a huge lake, maybe 20-30 acres in size....might be about 12 feet deep at most...not sure.
Easy if you park at the parking lot for the Towpath, walk up the road 25 yards and down the RR tracks about 100 yards, and it is up on hill to the right...
You can easily see it if you go to MapQuest and zoom in a little north of Clinton.
Pancake Creek Lake has good populations of fish, mostly carp:B, bullheads, stranded river pike, smallmouth bass,suckers, pumpkinseed, bluegills, crappie, warmouth bass,and rock bass in good numbers.
You can take a rod and cast there from shore, nobody ever comes out since it is never patrolled, it is a neat lake with easy shore access. :G
The creek on the east side that leaves the lake is public, and there are about 15 big stranded carp just below the dam at any given time.
The PPG signs all over Barberton from Vanderhoof Road, south into Clinton along the towpath you'll see if you have biked are about no trespassing due to chromium waste ponds.
Lake is to the south and west of those signs and the towpath.
The creek flows into the Tusc, near the Towpath, so some of those metals made it into the Tusc according to this report.
You can see the map of the area in the EPA report below.
EPA predicts another 10 to 15 years left before fish from the Tusc might be safe to humans to eat.
In case the link below does not work, you can paste "Biological, Sediment and Water Quality Study of the Tuscarawas River, Wolf Creek
and Hudson Run" in a search engine to read the EPA report.
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/portals/35/documents/tuscppg.pdf
This is one location where PPG dumped hexavalent chromium in the 1950's and 1960's to make their famous paint and coating by-products. :goat:
Pancake Creek Lake used to be closed to the public, somebody took down the signs this Spring, you access it from the RR tracks \Ohio Erie Towpath Bike trail near Center Road just north of Clinton.
There are usually one or two people fishing there.
It's not a huge lake, maybe 20-30 acres in size....might be about 12 feet deep at most...not sure.
Easy if you park at the parking lot for the Towpath, walk up the road 25 yards and down the RR tracks about 100 yards, and it is up on hill to the right...
You can easily see it if you go to MapQuest and zoom in a little north of Clinton.
Pancake Creek Lake has good populations of fish, mostly carp:B, bullheads, stranded river pike, smallmouth bass,suckers, pumpkinseed, bluegills, crappie, warmouth bass,and rock bass in good numbers.
You can take a rod and cast there from shore, nobody ever comes out since it is never patrolled, it is a neat lake with easy shore access. :G
The creek on the east side that leaves the lake is public, and there are about 15 big stranded carp just below the dam at any given time.
The PPG signs all over Barberton from Vanderhoof Road, south into Clinton along the towpath you'll see if you have biked are about no trespassing due to chromium waste ponds.
Lake is to the south and west of those signs and the towpath.
The creek flows into the Tusc, near the Towpath, so some of those metals made it into the Tusc according to this report.
You can see the map of the area in the EPA report below.
EPA predicts another 10 to 15 years left before fish from the Tusc might be safe to humans to eat.
In case the link below does not work, you can paste "Biological, Sediment and Water Quality Study of the Tuscarawas River, Wolf Creek
and Hudson Run" in a search engine to read the EPA report.
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/portals/35/documents/tuscppg.pdf
