[2] The main outflow is Trout Brook, also known as White Creek, which flows into Otsego Lake.

By 1820, fresh water was being shipped in to the Village of Richfield Springs from Weatherby Pond to the north.

Most of the main cast iron transmission line from the old steam pump location to the village was installed in 1880, with the exception of the roughly 1,690-foot-long (520 m) section that was tunnelled through the divide in the 1920s, so that it could be gravity fed.

In 1994, when the present water plant was built, pumps were added, although it could still be gravity fed.

The upper reservoir, at an elevation of 1,494 feet (455 m), is used to hold most of the water coming through the pipe from Allen Lake.