{"id":1696,"date":"2021-01-16T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:46:29","slug":"watershed-ramble-sandwich-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWATERSHED RAMBLE\u201d SANDWICH, MASSACHUSETTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

WATER JUST BEING WATER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I have been poking around and collecting the names of Cape Cod rivers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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My discoveries thus far include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bass River<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Little Pamet River<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pamet River<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Quashnet River<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mashpee River<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Santuit River<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Swan Pond River<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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If you know of any other Cape Cod rivers, let me know and I will lengthen the list.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I had never realized how many \u201ccreeks\u201d exist on Cape Cod. \u201cCreek\u201d is a foreign term for most native New Englanders.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Seems that the identifying element of Cape Cod \u201ccreeks\u201d is that they are associated with estuary environments i.e., the transition in short distances of sweet fresh water draining from the land and flowing to sea through common tidal estuary environments.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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When driving the roads of Cape Cod, you notice those ditch-like tidal waterways twisting through the salt marsh grasses \u2013 those are for the most part referred to on Cape Cod as \u201ccreeks.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cape Cod is a region consisting of many small watersheds \u2013 a lacework pattern of tiny localized and intimate waterways.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Listed, rather, by academics as one large regional watershed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A day trip this week to Sandwich, Massachusetts by several members of the Friends of the Ten Mile and Bucklin Brook combined the joy of local travel with the business of watershed field observation, thus my comments about Cape Cod as an unusual watershed entity \u2013 actually a dynamic environmental oddity as Cape Cod protrudes into the sometimes-stormy Atlantic Ocean.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We observed especially the Sandwich estuary consisting of several \u201ccreeks\u201d flowing to sea through a common barrier beach breach at Town Neck. (say \u201cbarrier beach breach\u201d three times fast) Fun!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sandwich is fun and as well, an intact estuary \u201ccreek\u201d environment presenting a quick study reality \u2013 naturally well-organized geographically and placed amongst the convenient location of several warm cozy tea shops.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Sandwich \u201ccreek\u201d system is bracketed on the west by Mill Creek associated with scenic Sandwich Center and the Shawme Lake complex and supported in the east by Spring Hill Creek more closely associated with the Green Briar Nature Center with Jam Kitchen in East Sandwich.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Several \u201ccreeks\u201d exist in between including: Factory Creek, Parsonage Creek, Ox Pasture Creek, Old Dock Creek, Old Harbor Creek, and Pine Island Creek \u2013 all common and picturesque tidal \u201ccreeks\u201d as described above and arrayed as a fan with all waters flowing to a common tidal exchange with Cape Cod Bay at the Town Neck breach.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the nostalgic stuff as described by Patty Page in her famous song \u201cOld Cape Cod.\u201d And a great place to relax and enjoy the power and beauty of water, just being water.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Don Doucette<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Photo Credits To Ben Cote<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WATER JUST BEING WATER I have been poking around and collecting the names of Cape Cod rivers. \u00a0 My discoveries thus far include: \u00a0 Bass River Little Pamet River Pamet River Quashnet River Mashpee River Santuit River Swan Pond River \u00a0 If you know of any other Cape Cod rivers, let me know and I<\/p>\n

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