[3] Ashford Lake's inflows consist of intermittent small streams and runoff, along with springs at the bottom of the pond.

The pond's waters are held back by an earthen embankment dam on its south shore.

Ashford Lake's outlet is Goss Brook, which flows over the dam's spillway and eventually into the Mount Hope River.

NO GAS[2] Ashford Lake is home to abundant aquatic vegetation, but most of it cannot be seen from the surface, and thus it poses little negative impacts on recreation.

are common along the shore, while Eleocharis acicularis, Isoetes sp., Nuphar variegata and Brasenia schreberi are sparse.