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Dam Attractions In Massachusetts

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Massachusetts , officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York to the west. The state is named after the Massachusett tribe, which once inhabited the east side of the area, and is one of the original thirteen states. The capital of Massachusetts is Boston, which is also the most populous city in New England. Over 80% of Massachusetts's population lives in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, a region influent...
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  • 1. Ashley Reservoir Holyoke
    Ashley Reservoir, a Class II hazard reservoir, is the secondary drinking supply for the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The reservoir, consisting of Wright Pond and Ashley Pond, has an impound capacity of more than 795 million gallons of water and a safe yield of 2.1 million gallons of water per day. The reservoir's construction finished and it became fully operational in 1897. Ashley Reservoir is connected to a smaller reservoir McLean Reservoir, named after Holyoke Water Works Commissioner Hugh McLean, through a water-pumping plant that is operated by the Holyoke Water Works. The reservoir has a surrounding gravel road open to civilian recreational use.
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  • 2. Wachusett Dam West Boylston
    The Wachusett Reservoir is the second largest body of water in the state of Massachusetts. It is located in central Massachusetts, northeast of Worcester. It is part of the water supply system for metropolitan Boston maintained by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority . It has an aggregate capacity of 65 billion US gallons and an area of almost 7 square miles . Water from the Wachusett flows to the covered Norumbega Storage Facility via the Cosgrove Tunnel and the MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel. The reservoir has a maximum depth of 120 feet and a mean depth of 48 feet . The reservoir serves as both an intermediate storage reservoir for water from the Quabbin Reservoir as well as a water source itself as it is also fed by its own watershed. The reservoir is fed by the Quinapoxet, and S...
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  • 3. Great Stone Dam Lawrence Massachusetts
    The Great Stone Dam was built between 1845 and 1848 on the site of Bodwell's Falls on the Merrimack River in what became Lawrence, Massachusetts. The dam has a length of 900 feet and a height of 35 feet .Lawrence is in Essex County, Massachusetts, approximately 25 miles north of Boston and only a few miles south of the New Hampshire border , located in the Merrimack Valley. The dam is 11 miles downstream from Lowell and is visible from Route 28 in Lawrence and from behind the Pacific Paper Mill .The dam feeds two canals . At their peak, the North Canal provided up to 13,000 horsepower and the South Canal 2,000 horsepower; the Essex Company sold mill rights to its water power, allowing mills to use the energy provided. The North Canal existed before the dam, but was redeveloped both to bett...
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