Westons Mill Pond | |
---|---|
Location | Westons Mills section of East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, with portions extending into New Brunswick and North Brunswick |
Coordinates | 40°28′59″N74°24′46″W / 40.48306°N 74.41278°W |
Type | Reservoir |
Basin countries | United States |
Surface elevation | 16 feet (4.9 m) |
The Westons Mill Pond is a dammed section of the Lawrence Brook. The dam is located in the Westons Mills section of East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, but the pond also borders the city of New Brunswick and North Brunswick Township. [1] It is one of a series of dams on the Lawrence Brook. The Westons Mill Pond Dam is the dam that controls reservoir output. The Westons Mill Pond is available for boating, although gasoline motors are prohibited due to the highly sensitive wildlife ecosystems found there.[ citation needed ]
The dam is found near Route 18 in the outskirts of New Brunswick. Its elevation is 16 feet above sea level. [2] It can be accessed on Burnet Street (Tower Center Boulevard), where the maintenance equipment is stored. There is a second, unofficial dam slightly farther upstream.
The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio. It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth. It also had connections to other canal systems in Pennsylvania.
Lawrence Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Middlesex County, New Jersey, in the United States.
Deans is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within South Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
Bread Loaf Mountain is a mountain located in Addison County, Vermont, in the Breadloaf Wilderness in the Green Mountain National Forest. The mountain is part of the central Green Mountains. Bread Loaf Mountain is flanked to the northeast by Mount Wilson, part of Vermont's Presidential Range.
Middle Brook is a tributary of the Raritan River in Somerset County, New Jersey. The stream can be referred to as Rha-weigh-weiros, a Native American name meaning "running from a deep hole", on early maps of the area.
The Passadumkeag River is a river in Maine. From the confluence of its East Branch and West Branch in Maine Township 3, Range 1, NBPP, the river runs 48.2 miles (77.6 km) south and west to its mouth on the Penobscot River in Passadumkeag.
Sucker Brook is a tributary of Lawrence Brook in central New Jersey in the United States.
Sawmill Brook is a tributary of Lawrence Brook in northwestern East Brunswick, New Jersey in the United States.
Ireland Brook is a tributary of Lawrence Brook in Middlesex County, New Jersey in the United States.
Beaverdam Brook is a tributary of Lawrence Brook in central East Brunswick, New Jersey in the United States.
Great Ditch is a drainage ditch that drains areas of the Pigeon Swamp State Park in New Jersey in the United States.
Sparkill Creek, is a tributary of the Hudson River in Rockland County, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States. It flows through the Sparkill Gap in the Hudson Palisades, which was created by a fault line which provided the only sea-level break in the Palisades.
Cottageville is an unincorporated community located within South Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The settlement is located along Davidson Mill Road at the former Newark–Trenton Fast Line right-of-way, now a PSE&G transmission line corridor. The trolley stop at the settlement allowed for summer cottages to be built in the area leading to the area's name. Today, some of the older homes remain in addition to a summer camp, forest land, and PSE&G's Deans substation.
Fresh Ponds is an unincorporated community located within South Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located in a rural portion of the township at the intersection of Fresh Ponds Road and Davidson Mill Road. Forest land, farms, homes, and a church are located around the settlement.
Westons Mills or Westons Mill is an unincorporated community located along the border of East Brunswick and New Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is the location of Westons Mill Pond.
The Canajoharie Creek is a river that flows into the Mohawk River in the Village of Canajoharie in the U.S. State of New York. The name "Canajoharie" is a Mohawk language term meaning "the pot that washes itself", referring to the "Canajoharie Boiling Pot", a 20-foot (6.1 m) wide and 10-foot (3.0 m) deep pothole in the Canajoharie Creek, just south of the village of Canajoharie. Bowmans Creek is one main tributary that enters the creek east of the Hamlet of Sprout Brook. The other main tributary is Brimstone Creek which enters the creek north-northwest of the Village of Ames.
Currant Creek is a stream in eastern Juab County and southern Utah County in northern Utah, United States.