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The lake is located off Route 128 in Middlesex County. In 1991, the Friends of Lake Quannapowitt (FOLQ) was founded, which is a non-profit organization intended to protect and bring public awareness to the lake, as well as its nearby public areas. Large amounts of tar were found in the lake in 1999, a by-product of gas manufacturing from coal. [5]
In 1847, Lake Quannapowitt was named for the Native American James Quannapowitt, one of the signers of the old Indian Deed of 1686. The earliest settlers referred to the lake simply as the "Greate Pond" or "Reading Pond." Lake Quannapowitt, seen here, is the larger of Wakefield's two principal lakes, the other being Crystal Lake. Lake ...
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Inland from the littoral zone, one can also frequently identify a riparian zone which has plants still affected by the presence of the lake—this can include effects from windfalls, spring flooding, and winter ice damage. The production of the lake as a whole is the result of production from plants growing in the littoral zone, combined with ...
The bandstand on the Common (top); the Common District as viewed from Lake Quannapowitt (bottom). The Common District encompasses the main civic center of Wakefield, Massachusetts . It is centered on the historic town common, just south of Lake Quannapowitt , which was laid in 1644, when it became the heart of Old Reading .
116 Lake District Outlying Fells Wainwrights are the 214 English peaks (known locally as fells ) described in Alfred Wainwright 's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–66). They all lie within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria , and all but one (Castle Crag) are over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) in height.
Saugus River and environs. The Saugus River is a river in Massachusetts.. The river is 13 miles (21 km) long, drains a watershed of approximately 47 square miles (120 km 2), and passes through Wakefield, Lynnfield, Saugus, and Lynn as it meanders east and south from its source in Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield (elevation 90 feet (27 m)) to its mouth in Broad Sound.
Lake ecosystems are a prime example of lentic ecosystems (lentic refers to stationary or relatively still freshwater, from the Latin lentus, which means "sluggish"), which include ponds, lakes and wetlands, and much of this article applies to lentic ecosystems in general.