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Greater Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) is considered a city of lakes containing 330 lakes, and the largest lake contained within a city, Lake Wanapitei with 13,257 hectares. [1] The lakes drain into two main watersheds: to the east is the French River watershed which flows into Lake Huron via Georgian Bay , and to the west is the Spanish River ...
Lake Cochituate was the first major water supply system built for the city, and replaced the previous usage of Jamaica Pond. Developed from 1848 to 1863, [ 4 ] it supplied Boston's water until 1951, by which time it had been supplanted by the larger Wachusett and Quabbin Reservoir supplies.
The Sudbury River is a 32.7-mile-long (52.6 km) tributary of the Concord River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. [1]Originating in the Cedar Swamp in Westborough, Massachusetts, near the boundary with Hopkinton, the Sudbury River meanders generally northeast, through Fairhaven Bay, and to its confluence with the Assabet River at Egg Rock in Concord, Massachusetts, to ...
Water began to fill the reservoir on February 8, 1897, with construction of the reservoir's new Sudbury Dam on the Stony Brook Branch of the Sudbury River completed later that year. [ 4 ] When completed, the reservoir's surface area was 2.02 square miles (5.2 km 2 ), its average depth was 17 feet (5.2 m) and maximum depth was 65 feet (20 m ...
A 1910 map of the Metropolitan Water District system supplying Boston, with Ashland at lower-center. The dam is an earthen embankment, built 83 feet (25 m) above bedrock and 54 feet (16 m) above the level of the reservoir. There is a concrete core wall about 8 feet (2.4 m) thick at the bottom and 2.5 feet (0.76 m) at the top.
They were built 1876–78 as part of an expansion of the public water supply of the city of Boston. The dam is 2,280 feet (690 m) long, and impounds an area of 253 acres (102 ha) in the Sudbury River watershed. The reservoir is the largest of the three Framingham reservoirs that were built at that time.
Ramsey Lake (French: Lac Ramsey) is a lake in Sudbury, Ontario, located near the city's downtown core. Until 2001, Ramsey Lake was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest lake located entirely within the boundaries of a single city, [citation needed] but when the Regional Municipality of Sudbury was amalgamated into the current city of Greater Sudbury, Ramsey Lake ...
Corrigan Lake is a lake in western Sudbury District in northwestern Ontario, Canada. [2] It is in the Great Lakes Basin, and lies in the geographic township of Genier. [3] There are no inflows. The major outflow, at the east, is an unnamed creek to Puswawa Lake, which flows via Puswawa Creek and the Montreal River to Lake Superior.