Early visitors to Lacawac arrived by horse and wagon from the train station in Lake Ariel, where a local farmer employed as the coachman met them, returned family members to the station, maintained the wagons and livestock, and lived in a small structure apart from the main lodge so he could watch over things and respond quickly when needed. He also maintained and operated a carbide gas generator in that building, piping gas underground to the lodge to power the original gas lanterns, because Lacawac was too rural for electricity, which was not added until 1939. The coachman also kept the lodge supplied with fresh water through a gravity-run system in which a steam-powered pump at a nearby spring house on the lake shore sent collected water to a large wooden tub on the lodge's second floor above the kitchen, providing gravity-fed pressurized water to the house and allowing maids to monitor the supply by a float gauge extending through the floor to the kitchen. In 1919 the steam engine was replaced by an electric pump powered by batteries charged by a generator. From the beginning of Connell Park, Lake Lacawac was to be protected from possible pollution by sewerage leakage, so all sewerage was pumped over the hilltop to the south end and out of the lake's drainage and watershed; the treatment system was updated in 1948, the same year the first real well was dug.