Little Quittacas Pond is a lake/reservoir/pond within the towns of
Lakeville and
Rochester
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, in southeastern
Massachusetts. Little Quittacas is one of the five great ponds of Southeastern Massachusetts that includes
Long Pond,
Assawompset Pond.
Pocksha Pond,
Great Quittacas and Little Quittacas Ponds. It is the location of the New Bedford Water Works. These lakes provide a source of drinking water to the city of
New Bedford
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, the largest city in southeastern
Massachusetts.
Snipatuit Pond
Snipatuit Pond is a shallow warm water pond in Rochester, Massachusetts. The average depth is five feet and the maximum depth is six feet, except for one very small nine foot hole near the pump station on the west shore. The pond is the headwaters ...
is an outlier pond that flows into
Buzzards Bay, via the
Mattapoisett River
The Mattapoisett River is an U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 river in southeastern Massachusetts, in the United States.
The river begins at Snipatuit Pond ...
and is connected to Great Quittacas through Snipituit Brook. The other great ponds drain into
Narragansett Bay through the
Taunton River
The Taunton River (historically also called the "Taunton Great River"), is a river in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States. It arises from the confluence of the Town River and Matfield River, in the town of Bridgewater. From the ...
. The five ponds are the largest natural fresh watersheds in Massachusetts.
External links
Environmental Protection Agency
Taunton River watershed
Lakes of Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Lakeville, Massachusetts
Rochester, Massachusetts
Reservoirs in Massachusetts
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