Brickyard Cove Pond is a small
lake in the
Brickyard Cove District of
Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a Richmond, California City Council, city council. . It was formed from quarrying of Nicholl's Knob the surrounding hill. It is fed by Brickyard Springs, a series of underground springs. Before the early 20th Century it was a swimming pond for local boys who often went
skinny dipping
Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is ''skinny-dipping''.
In both British and American English, to swim means "to move through ...
at the lake. However this ceased when local cattle ranchers began dumping manure in the pond.
[Images of America: Richmond, by Donald Bastin, Arcadia Publishing (SC), November 2003]
See also
*
List of lakes in California
*
List of lakes in the San Francisco Bay Area
This list of lakes in the San Francisco Bay Area groups lakes, ponds, and reservoirs by county. Numbers in parentheses are Geographic Names Information System feature ids.
Alameda County
* Almond Reservoir ()
* Berryman Reservoir ()
* Bethany R ...
References
Bodies of water of Richmond, California
Lakes of Contra Costa County, California
Lakes of the San Francisco Bay Area
Lakes of California
Lakes of Northern California
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