A well-conceived lake management plan restores and protects the lake's beneficial uses. These include cultural uses such as swimming, fishing, and aesthetics-as well as environmental quality uses such as fish and wildlife habitat and water quality. To help guide the Pell Lake management plan's development, a series of use objectives were developed.

The following lake quality and recreational use objectives have been identified for Pell Lake:

1. Improve water clarity for aesthetics, swimming, and other water-contact activities.
2. Eradicate invasive exotic plant and animal species, notably Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian water milfoil) and Cyprinus carpio (common carp).
3. Promote public health by reducing bacterial contamination of lake water.
4. Enhance future lake management opportunities through public entity acquisition of additional lake bottom, shoreline, and near-shore/critical watershed areas.
5. Enhance the quality of boating and fishing opportunities.
6. Develop lake controls by ordinance.