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The permanent lake at East Brimfield Dam, East Brimfield Reservoir (which includes Long Pond, a natural body of water that was enlarged by the dam's pool) is 360 acres (1.5 km 2) in size. Also located on the project are numerous natural bodies of water that are not affected by the dam under normal conditions, but are raised and inundated when ...
Fisher Hill Reservoir; Fort Meadow Reservoir; Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse; Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse; Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and Gatehouse; Fresh Pond (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Water began to fill the reservoir on February 8, 1897, with construction of the reservoir's new Sudbury Dam on the Stony Brook Branch of the Sudbury River completed later that year. [ 4 ] When completed, the reservoir's surface area was 2.02 square miles (5.2 km 2 ), its average depth was 17 feet (5.2 m) and maximum depth was 65 feet (20 m ...
The Concord River is a 16.3-mile-long (26.2 km) [1] tributary of the Merrimack River in eastern Massachusetts, United States. The river drains a small rural, suburban region northwest of Boston . As one of the most notable small rivers in U.S. history, it was the scene of an important early battle of the American Revolutionary War and was the ...
Ashland State Park is a public recreation area surrounding the 157-acre (64 ha) Ashland Reservoir in the town of Ashland, Massachusetts.The state park's 470 acres (190 ha) incorporate the entire shoreline of the reservoir, which is abutted by the Warren Conference Center and Inn [3] of Framingham State University, town-owned land once the site of Camp Winnetaska (a Girl Scouts camp), [4] and ...
Water impounded by the Ashland dam was originally fed to the aqueduct by a pair of 48-inch (120 cm) pipes. A 1910 map of the Metropolitan Water District system supplying Boston, with Ashland at lower-center. The dam is an earthen embankment, built 83 feet (25 m) above bedrock and 54 feet (16 m) above the level of the reservoir.
The reservoir is fed by the Quinapoxet and Stillwater rivers, along with the Quabbin Aqueduct, which carries water from the Quabbin Reservoir. It is part of the Nashua River watershed, forming the headwaters of the river. Because it is an intermediate storage reservoir, its water levels are kept relatively constant while the Quabbin Reservoir ...
Wenham Lake is a 224-acre body of water located in Wenham and Beverly towns, Essex County, Massachusetts.The lake receives water from the water table, a system of streams, the Putnamville Reservoir (via pipeline), and the Ipswich River (via pumping). In the 19th century, the lake was an important source of ice for export, especially to Britain.