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The channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the mill race, which together with weirs, dams, channels and the terrain establishing the mill pond, delivers water to the mill wheel to convert potential and/or kinetic energy of the water to mechanical energy by rotating the mill wheel. The production of mechanical power is the purpose of ...
Some water wheels are fed by water from a mill pond, which is formed when a flowing stream is dammed. A channel for the water flowing to or from a water wheel is called a mill race. The race bringing water from the mill pond to the water wheel is a headrace; the one carrying water after it has left the wheel is commonly referred to as a ...
Waddells Mill Pond Site, an archaeological site located seven miles northwest of Marianna, Florida; Sloat's Dam and Mill Pond, a dam and mill pond between Waldron Terrace and Ballard Avenue in Sloatsburg, New York; Cooksville Mill and Mill Pond Site, Evansville, Wisconsin, listed on the NRHP in Wisconsin
Some authorities restrict the definition of vernal pools to exclude seasonal wetlands that have defined inlet and outlet channels. The justification is that such seasonal wetlands tend to be qualitatively different from isolated vernal pools; this is because they are fed by larger drainage basins so that firstly, inflow contributes higher ...
A mill race, millrace or millrun, [1] mill lade (Scotland) or mill leat (Southwest England) is the current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel conducting water to or from a water wheel. Compared with the broad waters of a mill pond , the narrow current is swift and powerful.
Lexington is also in the process of completing a paved one-mile walking trail around the pond, which the town said should be ready to open to the public once Old Mill Pond is full again. The trail ...
The 1890s mill structure has long since been converted into dining and retail space in the 1980s, where visitors once had pristine views of a pond that was occasionally frequented by a ski club.
(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...