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The Bureau of State Parks and Recreation division of Department of Conservation and Recreation (Massachusetts) (DCR) is responsible for the maintenance and management of over 450,000 acres (1,820 sq km) of privately and state-owned forests and parks, nearly 10% of the Commonwealth's total land mass. Within the lands managed by the Bureau of ...
Cherry Creek Dam and reservoir. View is to the south. Dam wall Wildlife in state park. Cherry Creek State Park is a state park in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States.The park consists of a natural prairie and wetland environment with an 880-acre (3.6 km 2) reservoir at its center which is shared by powerboats, sailboats, and paddle craft.
Lake Saltonstall (Massachusetts) Silver Lake (Plymouth County, Massachusetts) Stockbridge Bowl; Stony Brook (Charles River tributary, Weston) Stump Pond (Pembroke, Massachusetts) Sudbury Reservoir; Sugden Reservoir
In addition to being a state park, portions of the park and structures within it are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The entire area surrounding Spot Pond to the east of I-93 is within the Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District, and the roadways in the park and on its borders are listed as the Middlesex Fells Reservation Parkways.
In 1887, on the site of Turtle Pond, the city of Cambridge completed construction of the Stony Brook Reservoir Dam, where Stony Brook joins the Charles, as part of its water supply. [4] Stony Brook Reservoir has a drainage area of 23.57 square miles (61.0 km 2 ) and an available storage capacity of 354,000,000 US gallons (1,340,000 m 3 ) (1087 ...
The Chestnut Hill Reservation embraces 120 acres adjacent to the Boston College campus, including a 1.5 mile walking trail around a reservoir. [10] The Reservation was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted’s son and constructed in the late 1860s to give Boston clean drinking water and a rural park.
The reservoir is a popular birding location, where at least 195 species have been observed. [4] The Reilly Memorial Recreation Center beside the reservoir has a swimming pool and skating rink. [ 3 ] A building across the street from the reservoir, which housed pumping equipment for the water system, has been converted into the Metropolitan ...
The 1978 Charles River Dam, located behind the TD Garden, controls the water level in the river basin.An earlier dam (see Charles River Dam Bridge), located beneath the Museum of Science, was completed in 1910 with the purpose of creating a fresh water river basin and riverfront park in Boston and Cambridge.