Numerous cottages dot the lake's shores, along with several camps and a youth drug rehabilitation centre.

The water is clean, and the lake is fed by two large brooks, as well as surface runoff and numerous underwater springs.

There are many types of birds, including bald eagles, loons, cormorants and king fishers, several beaver dams, and mainly chain pickerel, splake, and sunfish, there are also Smallmouth bass, and speckled trout.

His original homestead on Cassidy Hill burned many years ago, but you will still find the foundation, apple orchards, cemetery and church.

Today the mine acts as water storage for its sister operation in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, which has also been leaking for some years.