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Taunton River Watershed DOVER MILTON QUINCY COHASSET SHERBORN .!.! .! WESTWOOD .! .! .! # BRAINTREE HINGHAM SCITUATE NORWOOD MEDFIELD # RANDOLPH t24 WEYMOUTH MILLIS CANTON u .! NORWELL .!.! Boston Harbor .! .! # .! .!.! WALPOLE 95 .! HOLBROOK ¨¦§ .! Beaver Brook Shumatuscacant River ! t3 .!.!.!. u .! h Charles h .! .! .! .! h CUSHING POND ROCKLAND .! .! .! .! .!.! .! AVO N MARSHFIELD .!.! .! .!.! HANOVER CLEVELAND POND Shumatuscacant River .! STOUGHTON BROCKTON RESERVOIR .!.! ABINGTON Trout Brook NORFOLK .! .! .! h ISLAND GROVE POND .! h .! SHARON WALDO LAKE .! DRY POND h Beaver Brook Shumatuscacant River .! Searles Brook .! WOLOMOLOPOAG POND UPPER PORTER POND # Searles BrookTrout Brook .! .! LOWER PORTER POND .! .! h HUNTS POND THIRTYACRE POND .! Whitman Brook Lovett Brook Cary Brook .! .! Meadow Brook Poor Meadow Brook Billings Brook CROSS POND .! AMES LONG POND FRENCH POND Salisbury Brook HOBART POND Canoe River GAVINS POND.! Beaver Brook South Coastal .! BROCKTON .! ! WHITMAN .!.! .! BRIGGS POND MONTE POND Salisbury Brook .! Meadow Brook .!.! CARPENTER POND West Meadow Brook .! BEAR MEADOW .!.! h .! PICKER POND Beaver Brook HARRIGAN POND PUDS POND FLYAWAY PONDQueset Brook Meadow Brook Cocasset Brook GIBNEY POND .! .! !! Bretts Brook CRACKER POND [_ .. [_ VANDYS POND .! Dorchester Brook PEMBROKE Canoe River LEACH POND Salisburyh Plain River Shumatuscacant River WRENTHAM SUNSET LAKE FOXBOROUGH .! h .! [_ .! .! Meadow Brook .! Queset Brook.! AMES POND [_ HANSON .! Cocasset Brook West Meadow Brook Edson Brook Little Canoe River [_ DUXBURY FURNACE LAKE BEAUMONT POND .! h .! HERSEY POND h Cowesset Brook *#)"Meadow Brook .! .! MORSE POND JONES POND Meadow.! Brook GLUE FACTORY POND Black Brook .! .! .! Robinson Brook Edson Brook .! Wading.! River .! Poquanticut BrookBeaver Brook DEAN POND RABBIY HILL POND .! Salisbury Plain River .! h Canoe.! RiverWHITEVILLE POND .! !.! .! .!.![_ . 495 EASTON .! .! EAST BRIDGEWATER White Oak Brook ¨¦§ Robinson Brook Matfield River h uth24 .! .! Hawthorne Brook Willow Brook GREAT CEDAR SWAMP STETSON POND OLD POND MILL POND .! Wading River h Black Brook BURRAGE POND .! Wading River NEW POND .! ut3 Mulberry Brook .! WEST BRIDGEWATER Satucket .!RiverPoor Meadow Brook White Oak.! Brook MUDDY POND .! Canoe River BURRAGE POND PLAINVILLE.! .! ! .!.! West Meadow Brook ROBINSON POND MANSFIELD . [_ ! LITTLE CEDAR SWAMP TOWN RIVER MONPONSETT POND .! .! . FLAGGY MEADOW .! MONPONSETT POND .! .! .! Canoe River Black Brook Hockomock River .! .! .! Hodges Brook Rumford River .! Town River Matfield River Stump BrookWINEBROOK BOGS .!.! .! WARD POND .! ROBBINS POND .! .! .!.! .! PETERSON SWAMP .!FULLER HAMMOND RESERVOIR .! Town River .!.! Town River Black Brook Hockomock River Town River [_ .! .! Hodges Brook .! BLOOD POND # SWEETS POND HALIFAX[_[_ .! 95 Canoe River WADING RIVER .! TURKEY SWAMP .! ¨¦§ NORTON RESERVOIR KINGSTON South Brook Taunton River .! .! Town River .! South Brook Mulberry Meadow Brook .! Canoe River .! CARVER.! POND NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH .! HOCKOMOCK SWAMP LAKE NIPPENICKET .!.!.!.! .! .! .! .! NUNKETS POND BRIDGEWATER Winnetuxet River .! WINNECUNNET POND [_ Beaver Brook Palmer Mill Brook .! Snake River PLYMPTON NORTON Snake River Snows Brook Colchester Brook .! .! 495 .!.! ICE POND h .! Taunton River MUDDY POND [_ .! ¨¦§ GRANNY POND .! .! .! .! .! TRICKLE POND .! h TITICUT.! SWAMP Sawmill Brook .! .! .! BARROWSVILLE POND WATSON POND Ten Mile hh h .! White Oak Island Brook LITTLE CEDAR SWAMP LYON POND.! h DEAD SWAMP .! hh .!.! GREAT CEDAR SWAMP .! 295 COOPERS POND # Three Mile River h h HEWITT POND Winnetuxet River ¨¦§ CHARTLEY POND *#)h" RICKETTS POND LAKE SABBATIABLACK POND Snows Brook .! .! GUSHEE POND Sawmill Brook .! Annasnapett Brook .! .! .!.!.! Taunton River CEDAR SWAMP .! Meadow Brook Pond TRACY POND Nemasket River .! Chartley Brook .! KINGS POND .! .! ATTLEBORO Threemile River PROSPECT HILL POND.!Pine Swamp Brook Raven Brook Doten Brook RAYNHAM Otis Pratt Brook BEAVERDAM SWAMP [_ .! .! PINE SWAMP .!.! Bassett Brook JOHNSON POND Beaver Dam Brook Mill River .!PLYMOUTH Meadow Brook Muddy.! Pond Brook WILLIS POND h COOPER POND h Whetstone Brook .! .! HEMLOCK SWAMP SHEPPARDS FACTORY\POND Forge River Nemasket River .! .! .! CRAPO BOG .! MUDDY POND .! Dam Lot Brook MEETINGHOUSE SWAMP .! Puddingshear Brook .! JOHNS POND Taunton RiverPogouy Brook ! Cobb Brook .! . TAUNTON RIVER JOSES MEADOW .! .! .! TAUNTON Pogouy Brook .! THREEMILE RIVER .! Mill River h Fall Brook .! .! .! Nemasket River .!.!.! .! h NEVERTOUCH POND .!.! .! ! WOODS POND ..!.! .! .! Segreganset River TAUNTON RIVER Shorts Brook .! TAUNTON RIVER .! THATCHERS POND .! .! .! h h Cotley River DEEP POND .! BARSTOWS POND RICHMOND POND MIDDLEBOROUGH PAWTUCKET .! CARVER .! .! h Threemile River CLEAR POND Segreganset.! River Cotley River FURNACE PONDKINGS POND .!.! Fall BrookShorts Brook .! .! 495 *#h DUNHAM POND .! Fall Brook .! MIDDLE POND .! § Fall Brook¨¦ h # THE RESERVOIR ! .! h *#)" .! . MAPLE SWAMP h Thompson Brook TISPAQUIN POND.! .! NEMASKET RIVER .! .! Three Mile River CAIN POND .! .!! .!.! .! Bates Brook . .! LOON POND .! .! .! .! .! .! .! OWL SWAMP .! .!.! .! .! t24 .! ELDERS POND .! .! u .! .! .! .! .! Segreganset River SAMPSONS.! COVE .!.!.! .!.! .! Sunken Brook Taunton River .! .! REHOBOTH Cotley River .! .! .! # .!.! .! .!AASSAWOMPSETT POND .! .!.! .! Millers Neck Brook SEEKONK ! DIGHTON BERKLEY .! .! . Segreganset River .! .! .! .! .! h ut140 LAKEVILLE .! .! Quaker Brook .! Black Brook .! Holloway Brook .! .! .! CEDAR SWAMP CRANBERRY POND .! .! MILL POND POCKSHA POND .! .! Tamett Brook .!.! .! Quaker Brook .! .!.! *#)" Cedar Swamp River .! Hathaway Brook Narragansett Bay .! .! CEDAR POND LONG POND Black Brook .! FORGE POND .! .! Muddy Cove Brook .! Cedar Swamp River .! GREAT QUITTACAS POND .! .! .! ASSONET RIVER .! LITTLE QUITTACAS POND .! .! .! .!.! .!.! Black Brook .! BROAD COVE .! .! EAST PROVIDENCE .! .! .! .! Snipatuit Brook SOMERSET RESERVOIR ! .!.! Fall Brook 195 . .! Terry Brook ¨¦§.! .! Labor in Vain Brook Fall Brook .! .! WAREHAM .! .!.! .! h Rattlesnake Brook BOLTON CEDAR SWAMP .! FREETOWN.!.! .! SWANSEA h .! CEDAR SWAMP .! ! .!.! ROCHESTER . h .! Buffington Brook h Mill Brook .! BOLTONt140 CEDAR SWAMP u .! h BARRINGTON Steep Brook .! *#)"h Steep Brook .!.! SOMERSET SASSAQUIN POND WARREN BETTY SPRING .! .! ¨¦§195 WARWICK FALL RIVER ACUSHNET *#)"h MARION .! .! .! Buzzards Bay BRISTOL Narragansett Bay .! NEW BEDFORD MATTAPOISETT .! 195 .! ¨¦§ .! FAIRHAVEN .! Legend Community Groundwater Well # Stream-Gaging.!.! Stations .! .! .! Ta unton River Non-Transient Non-community )" Facilities with Type II Surfacewater Watershed .! Discharge Permits (SWD).! DARTMOUTH Proposed Well .!.! Major Basins .!.! .! (HUC 8 Equivalent) Community Surface Water Source .!.! TIVERTON WESTPORT Drainage Sub-basins .! Transient Non-Community (HUC 14 Equivalent) .! Emergency Surface Water .!.! Major Rivers Taunton River PORTSMOUTH h The facility is permitted as a large quantity Streams toxics user and falls under the requirements of the Toxic Use Reduction Act (TURA) Surface Water Watershed [_ Ground Water Discharge Permits ± Mile Cranberry Bog *# National Pollution Discharge 1 Wetlands Elimination System (NPDES) facility Reference Map 1 MIDDLETOWN LITTLE COMPTON JAMESTOWN.
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