The Santuit River, also known as the Cotuit River, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
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accessed April 1, 2011 river on the border between Mashpee and

Cotuit, Massachusetts Cotuit ( ) is one of the villages of the Town of Barnstable on Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on a peninsula on the south side of Barnstable about midway between Falmouth and Hyannis, Cotuit is bounded by t ...

Cape Cod Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...

. The river flows southwards from the southern end of Santuit Pond into Popponesset Bay (also known as Shoestring Bay) on the south shore of

. The river was a vigorous herring/ alewife run and has been reputed to hold sea-run brown trout. It was alleged that overpumping by an adjacent golf course caused the river to run dry in the early 1990s but that charge was denied.

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Popponesset Bay: Results Pilots Modeling Scenarios
Rivers of Barnstable County, Massachusetts Rivers of Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-river-stub