16 Meadowbrook Rd, New Fairfield, CT 06812

This home sits on a 3 acre pond that the owner shares with 5 other properties. It is 100% private. The pond is surrounded by private properties and the deeds extend into the bottom of the pond. There is no public access. It has a state approved dam. The pond was dredged and reclaimed in the 1988 through 1991 period and is now on average about 15 feet deep. It has three streams feeding it with the main stream being Ball Pond Brook. It was dug down into bank run gravel and has active springs. It is stocked with bass, blue gill and a few other panfish species. It has been stocked with trout in the past and has the capability to hold trout year round. The pond goes back to the pre-revolutionary period and was a former grist mill. As mentioned above, it was dredged out with the shoreline reconstructed back in the late 1980s. It is rare to find a property that has it's own private pond and rarer still to find one that has been reclaimed and is now deep enough for swimming, fishing and boating. Housing price comparables are difficult to measure since no other houses on the market in the area have this kind of an amenity. If you want a larger lake, Candlewood Lake (5000+ acres) and Squantz Pond are ten minutes away with a town and state boat launches available and Ball Pond, a natural glacial lake is literally only hundreds of yards away and it too has a state boat launch on it. All three bodies of water are stocked by the state with thousands of trout each year and are highly rated bass fishing lakes.