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I don't believe so. It is said that all lakes are doomed eventually to be filled with sediment, but those at higher elevations will last longer than those at lower elevations, obviously because the eroded sediment is subject to gravity etc. There were a few glacial lakes, like glacial lake...

One other thing from an ecology perspective-two major factors that dictate the ecology of the pinelands are serotiny (fire ecology and adaptations) and the porosity and acidity of the soils. The sandy soils are more porous than clay, silt or rock, so there is not as much of an organic layer on...

I once read the statistic that the amount of water in the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system is enough to cover the entire state of NJ in a lake 10 feet deep (!) The containment of the water in the sandy substrate comes from the fact that there are layers of clay and rock with lower porosity...