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Great Island Pond
Great Island Pond, known officially as Island Pond, is a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts, one of three ponds known as ''Island Pond'' within the town (One is located near South Pond village, and the other is located in the Cedarville section of town). The pond is located in the eastern portion of The Pinehills The Pinehills is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Pine Hills region of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 955. It includes a real estate development that bears the same name. As of 2008, ... development south of Little Island Pond. The Pinehills has a private sewer treatment facility near this pond, which was also formerly used as a holding facility by The Pine Hills LLC Golf Club until the spring of 2003. The Golf Club currently is permitted to withdraw water from four interceptor wells located between the sewer treatment facility and the pond. External linksEnvironmental Protection Agency [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth (; historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as "America's Hometown". Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the ''Mayflower'' Pilgrims, where New England was first established. It is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States. The town has served as the location of several prominent events, one of the more notable being the First Thanksgiving feast. Plymouth served as the capital of Plymouth Colony from its founding in 1620 until the colony's merger with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691. The English explorer John Smith named the area Plymouth (after the city in South West England) and the region 'New England' during his voyage of 1614 (the accompanying map was published in 1616). It was a later coincidence that, after an ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Island Pond is a pond in the South Pond section of Plymouth, Massachusetts, one of three ponds named ''Island Pond'' within the town (One is located in the Cedarville section of town, and the other is in ''The Pinehills'' development, better known as Great Island Pond). The pond is part of the Eel River watershed. The pond is located northeast of Gunners Exchange Pond and Hoyts Pond, and north of Myles Standish State Forest. A portion of the Massasoit National Wildlife Refuge Massasoit National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1983 to conserve the federally endangered Plymouth Red-bellied Turtle, as well as other wildlife and plant species. The Refuge encompasses in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It is made up of two parc ... lies along the shoreline of this pond. External linksEnvironmental Protection Agency [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Pond (Cedarville, Massachusetts)
Island Pond is a pond in the Cedarville section of Plymouth, Massachusetts, one of three ponds named ''Island Pond'' within the town (one is located near South Pond village, and the other is located in ''The Pinehills'' development, better known as Great Island Pond). The pond is located northwest of Great Herring Pond, north of Elbow Pond, southwest of Little Herring Pond Little Herring Pond is a , shallow natural pond in the Cedarville section of Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. The pond is located north of Great Herring Pond, west of Hedges Pond, southwest of Black Jimmy Pond (Hyles Pond), northeast of Island Pon ..., and south of Triangle Pond. References External linksEnvironmental Protection Agency [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pinehills
The Pinehills is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the Pine Hills region of Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2010 census, the population was 955. It includes a real estate development that bears the same name. As of 2008, the project is the largest new residential and commercial development in New England. When complete, The Pinehills, a mixed-use community, will include 1.3 million square feet of mixed-use space and 3,065 homes on only 30 percent of the land, preserving over 2,200 acres of open space over an area of , an area larger than many Massachusetts towns. Already, over 500,000 square feet of mixed-use space exists in the Village Green. The community now consists of over 2,000 single-family homes, apartments and condominiums, two daily fee public golf courses, a private golf club, and the Village Green, a commercial center with a grocery store, restaurants, US Post Office, shops and professional and medical services. Homes in The Pinehills are org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Island Pond (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
Long Island Pond, also known as Little Island Pond, is a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The pond is located in the eastern portion of ''The Pinehills'' development north of Great Island Pond Great Island Pond, known officially as Island Pond, is a pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts, one of three ponds known as ''Island Pond'' within the town (One is located near South Pond village, and the other is located in the Cedarville section of ... and south of Beaver Dam Pond. External linksEnvironmental Protection Agency Ponds of Plymouth, Massachusetts [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponds Of Plymouth, Massachusetts
A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake. Defining them to be less than in area, less than deep, and with less than 30% emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing their ecology from that of lakes and wetlands.Clegg, J. (1986). Observer's Book of Pond Life. Frederick Warne, London Ponds can be created by a wide variety of natural processes (e.g. on floodplains as cutoff river channels, by glacial processes, by peatland formation, in coastal dune systems, by beavers), or they can simply be isolated depressions (such as a kettle hole, vernal pool, prairie pothole, or simply natural undulations in undrained land) filled by runoff, groundwater, or precipitation, or all three of these. They can be further divided into four zones: vegetation zone, open water, bottom mud and surface film. The size and depth of ponds often varies greatly with the time of year; many ponds are produced by spring flooding from rivers. Ponds may be f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
