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Lake Wallenpaupack (41°24′47″N 75°14′25″W / 41.41306°N 75.24028°W / 41.41306; -75.24028) is an artificial reservoir in Pennsylvania, USA. It was created in 1927 by PPL, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Company, for hydroelectric purposes. It is located near Hawley, on the border of Pike and Wayne counties in northeastern Pennsylvania.

According to the Hawley-Lake Wallenpaupack Chamber of Commerce:

Construction started early in 1924 and 2,700 men worked nearly 2 years to complete the project. It included the dam, the power plant, and the giant wooden flow line to carry the water from the Lake to the plant location 3 1/2 miles away. The original wooden structure, one of the worlds largest pipelines at that time, was constructed from 5 million board feet of douglas fir and transported by ship from the state of Washington.

The Wallenpaupack 44,000 KW power plant was constructed simultaneously with the dam and put into service in 1926. The plant increased PPL's system generating capacity approximately 25% in 1926. It's system-wide generating capacity, when the plant went on line, was only about 225,000 KW.

Lake Wallenpaupack is a center of recreation for the surrounding communities, providing boating and fishing access in the summertime, as well as ice skating and ice fishing in the winter.

The lake was the subject of "Booze Cruise", a 2006 episode of the NBC sitcom, The Office. In the episode of the show, which is set in nearby Scranton, Pennsylvania, the office crew goes on a "motivational" cruise on the lake. The episode, like the rest of the series, was filmed in California.

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