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Often referred to by locals as "Quonnie Pond", or "Quonnie", [1] the lagoon is bounded on the south by coastal beaches, with a narrow breach way, created by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s, providing access to Block Island Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean. The westernmost side of Quonnie is the site of the Weekapaug Inn, whose restaurants ...
Quonochontaug (/ ˈ k w ɑː n ə k ɒ n t ɒ ɡ / KWAH-nə-kon-tog, also known as Quonnie [2]) is a village in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. [1] It is composed of three small beach communities, and is part of Charlestown .
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Tidal range is the difference in height between high tide and low tide. Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and Sun, by Earth's rotation and by centrifugal force caused by Earth's progression around the Earth-Moon barycenter. Tidal range depends on time and location.
A tide mill is a water mill driven by tidal rise and fall. A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a reservoir . As the tide comes in, it enters the mill pond through a one-way gate, and this gate closes automatically when the tide begins to fall.
In The Rocks at Pourville, Low Tide(1882), there is the locals collecting shellfish from the tidal rock, an activity that Monet's children must have seen. Vacationers sometimes pretend to be locals, as we see in the guidebook illustrations of everyday life, but Monet, while living among other vacationers, erases their society in his paintings.
A chart datum is the water level surface serving as origin of depths displayed on a nautical chart and for reporting and predicting tide heights. A chart datum is generally derived from some tidal phase, in which case it is also known as a tidal datum. [1] Common chart datums are lowest astronomical tide (LAT) [1] and mean lower low water (MLLW).
Winnapaug Pond (also known as Brightman Pond [2]) is a breached saltwater lagoon in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States, connected to Block Island Sound by the Weekapaug Breachway, which was constructed during the mid-1950s. [3] [4] The 2.5-mile (4.0 km) lake is separated from the Atlantic by a large sandbar.