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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 ...
Lake Sabbatia; Lake Saltonstall (Massachusetts) Silver Lake (Plymouth County, Massachusetts) Stockbridge Bowl; Stony Brook (Charles River tributary, Weston) Stump Pond (Pembroke, Massachusetts) Sudbury Reservoir; Sugden Reservoir
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 ...
It is part of the Nashua River Watershed. This dam is part of greater Boston's water system, maintained and controlled by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). Its discharge is into the Nashua River. When it was completed in 1905, the Wachusett Reservoir was the largest public water supply reservoir in the world. [2]
Water from the 412-billion-US-gallon (1.56 × 10 9 m 3) capacity Quabbin Reservoir flows through the Quabbin Aqueduct from the northeast side of the Quabbin, up a slope to the Ware River Diversion in South Barre, Massachusetts, down again to the Wachusett Reservoir, and then through a power station near the Oakdale section of West Boylston, Massachusetts.
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.
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.
Otis Reservoir is a 1,085-acre (4 km 2) reservoir located primarily in Otis, Massachusetts, United States. Small portions are also in Tolland, MA , and Blandford, MA . The lake is popular for boating, swimming, fishing, water skiing , snowmobiling , camping, and water-related recreation.