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Coordinates:41°39′48.71″N69°58′48.07″W / 41.6635306°N 69.9800194°W /41.6635306; -69.9800194

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River in Connecticut, United States

Oyster Pond River

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Country	United States
States	Connecticut

Oyster Pond River, also calledOyster Creek, is a 1.7-mile-long (2.7 km)^[1] river inChatham, Massachusetts onCape Cod.

The river is anestuary connecting Oyster Pond with Stage Harbor, averaging 3 to 5 feet (1 to 2 m) in depth and bordered with saltmarshes.^{[citation needed]}

Oyster Pond

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TheChatham Railroad Depot was built in 1896 when Chatham was the last town on Cape Cod to get railroad service. The direct rail access caused a tourist boom in Chatham.^[2] Many elegant summer homes were built near Oyster Pond. TheLouis Brandeis House, one such summer home,^[3] is aNational Historical Landmark.^{[citation needed]}

Kenneth O. Emery (1914–1998) ofWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution wrote a classic monograph on Oyster Pond entitledA Coastal Pond Studied by Oceanographic Methods, published byElsevier in 1969. The monograph gives a detailed description of the pond in terms of topography, geology, hydrology, and biology. The pond lost all of its oysters in the late 1800s when the pond's entrance to Stage Harbor was filled in to make way for a railroad.^[4] In the late 1960s Oyster Pond was 25hectares in area with an average depth of 3 meters and an averagesalinity of about 1.7 grams of salt per kilogram of pond water.^[5] Many studies of the pond have been made. The Oyster Pond Environmental Trust (OPET) was formed for the environmental preservation of Oyster Pond and its ecological systems.^[6]

In 1996, OPET reissuedA Coastal Pond Studied by Oceanographic Methods with an epilogue by Dr. Brian Howes and Dr.Stanley Hart on how the pond had changed from the 1960s through to the mid 1990s. It also describes the management scheme put in place in the mid 1990s to control the salinity levels in the pond between 2- 4ppt.^[7]

Over 200 species of birds utilize the marshes, forests, thickets, and open water surrounding Oyster Pond for breeding, migratory stops and over wintering.^[8]

References

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^U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data.The National Map, accessed April 1, 2011
^Robert Zaremba; Danielle R. Jeanloz (1999).Chatham, Massachusetts. Arcadia Publishing. p. 61.ISBN 978-0-7385-0331-8.
^Chatham, Massachusetts, p. 87
^Schopf, Thomas J. M. (1971). "A Coastal Pond Studied by Oceanographic Methods. K. O. Emery".The Journal of Geology.79 (4): 505.doi:10.1086/627663.ISSN 0022-1376.
^Ogden, J. G. (1969). "A Coastal Pond. Studied by Oceanographic Methods. K. O. Emery. Elsevier, New York, 1969. xiv + 82 pp., illus. $8.50".Science.166 (3906):730–731.doi:10.1126/science.166.3906.730.ISSN 0036-8075.p. 731
^"About Oyster Pond Environmental Trust".opet.org.
^"Scientific Research at Oyster Pond".Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Inc.
^"Zinn Memorial Park & the Headquarters of Oyster Pond".Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Inc.

Rivers of Massachusetts bydrainage system

Atlantic Ocean

Buzzards Bay	Acushnet River Agawam River Back River Copicut River Crooked River Mattapoisett River Nasketucket River Paskamanset River Pocasset River Sippican River Slocums River Wankinco River Westport River Weweantic River
Nantucket Sound	Bass River Bumps River Childs River Coonamesset River Mashpee River Mitchell River Oyster Pond River Popponesset Creek Quashnet River Santuit River
Others	Tiasquam River

Gulf of Maine

Cape Cod Bay	Bluefish River Eel River Herring River Jones River Little Pamet River Pamet River Town Brook
Massachusetts Bay	Aberjona River Alewife Brook Canton River Charles River Chelsea Creek Cochato River Fore River Fresh River Indian Head River Malden River Millers River Monatiquot River Muddy River Mystic River Neponset River North River Saugus River Stony Brook (Boston) Stony Brook (Waltham) Stop River Weir River Weymouth Back River
Merrimack River Watershed	Artichoke River Assabet River Back River Beaver Brook Cochichewick River Concord River Little River Merrimack River Nashua River Nissitissit River North Nashua River Phillips Brook Powwow River Quinapoxet River Salmon Brook Shawsheen River Souhegan River South Branch Souhegan River South Nashua River Spicket River Squannacook River Stillwater River Sudbury River Trout Brook Vine Brook Whitman River
Others	Annisquam River Blackwater River Eagle Hill River Egypt River Ipswich River Jericho Creek Roger Island River Rowley River Skug River

Long Island Sound

Connecticut River Watershed	Burnshirt River Chapel Brook Chicopee River Connecticut River Cranberry River Deerfield River East Brookfield River Farmington River Fall River Five Mile River Green River Hubbard River Manhan River Mill River (Northampton) Mill River (Springfield) Millers River Mirey Brook North Branch Millers River North Branch Westfield River North River Otter River Quaboag River Scantic River Seven Mile River Tarbell Brook Ware River Westfield River
Housatonic River Watershed	Housatonic River Konkapot River Schenob Brook Umpachene River
Thames River Watershed	French River Quinebaug River

Narragansett Bay

Mount Hope Bay (Taunton River Watershed)	Assonet River Canoe River Cedar Swamp River Cocasset River Cotley River Forge River Hockomock River 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
Providence River Watershed	Abbott Run Blackstone River Bungay River Chockalog River Mill River Mumford River Peters River Quinsigamond River Sevenmile River Tannery River Ten Mile River West River Wilde River
Others	Barrington River Cole River Coles Brook Kickemuit River Lees River Palmer River Runnins River

Upper New York Bay

Hudson River Watershed	Hoosic River Kinderhook Creek

v t e Coastal waterbodies ofMassachusetts
Bays	Buzzards Bay Cape Cod Bay Dorchester Bay Duxbury Bay Hingham Bay Massachusetts Bay Mount Hope Bay Nahant Bay Narragansett Bay Plymouth Bay Popponesset Bay Quincy Bay Waquoit Bay
Channels	Broad Sound North Entrance Channel Canapitsit Channel Fort Point Channel Hypocrite Channel Salem Channel South Channel
Coves	Cat Cove Juniper Cove Orleans Cove Warren Cove
Harbors	Barnstable Harbor Boston Harbor East Harbor Hyannis Harbor Marblehead Harbor Plymouth Harbor Port of New Bedford Provincetown Harbor Rock Harbor Salem Harbor
River mouths	Annisquam River Back River Blackwater River Bass River Eagle Hill River Egypt River Fore River Ipswich River Jericho Creek Merrimack River Mitchell River Oyster Pond River Quashnet River Roger Island River Rowley River Skug River Tiasquam River Weir River
Sounds	Broad Sound Nantucket Sound Vineyard Sound
Straits	Quick's Hole Robinson's Hole Woods Hole

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