Canoe River
The Canoe River is a river in southeastern Massachusetts. It is 14.4 miles (23.2 km) long[1] and part of the Taunton River Watershed.
The Canoe River arises from headwaters near Lake Massapoag in Sharon, and meanders generally southwards through the towns of Sharon, Foxborough, Mansfield, and Easton to empty into Winnecunnet Pond in Norton.
Winnecunnet Pond is emptied by the Snake River which flows into Lake Sabbatia which was formed by damming the Mill River which joins the Taunton River and ultimately empties into Narragansett Bay.
The river provides drinking water for about 50,000 people in the region who receive their water from its aquifer. It has been designated a sole source aquifer and since 1991, an Area of Critical Environmental Concern by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[2][3]
History
The river has a number of earlier names. The section near the headwaters in Sharon were once called Massapoag Brook, and the section in that town alone powered six industrial mills in the nineteenth century.[4]
See also
- Lake Sabbatia
- Watson Pond
References
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- Assonet River
- Canoe River
- Cedar Swamp River
- Cocasset River
- Cotley River
- Forge River
- Hockomock River
- Lady Slipper Brook
- Matfield River
- Mill River
- Nemasket River
- Poor Meadow Brook
- Quequechan River
- Rumford River
- Salisbury Plain River
- Satucket River
- Segreganset River
- Shumatuscacant River
- Snake River
- Taunton River
- Three Mile River
- Town River
- Wading River
- Winnetuxet River
- Assawompset Pond
- Assonet Bay
- Great Quittacas Pond
- Little Quittacas Pond
- Lake Nippenicket
- Norton Reservoir
- Lake Mirimichi
- Lake Rico
- Lake Sabbatia
- Leach Pond
- Long Pond
- Pocksha Pond
- Somerset Reservoir
- Turnpike Lake
- Watson Pond
- Winnecunnet Pond
41°58′23″N 71°08′10″W / 41.973°N 71.136°W / 41.973; -71.136