Tuesday, March 19, 2024

“WATERSHED RAMBLINGS”

WHERE TWO WATERSHEDS MEET AND TWO WATERSHEDS PART 

A DD Cardinals

BY DON DUCETTE

A layman’s perspective…

A seemingly obscure piece of real estate in Seekonk east of Arcade Avenue and south of Ledge Road exists, as the tiny Runnins River drains toward Hundred Acre Cove in Barrington, Rhode Island.

This area is of extended wetland and interspersed with cozy housing development and unique to a watershed enthusiast in that the bulk of the draining ground water is carried along by the Runnins River with one exception.

An unseen and unexplained epicenter at this point, a strong flow of water, brook size, escapes this extended wetland complex and flows northward through a nearby neighborhood and finds its way to Turner Reservoir, an impoundment associated with the separate Ten Mile River Watershed – water from one extended wetland area feeds two watersheds.

Can this be true?

Curiosity suggests that this situation begs a learned and professional explanation.

Don Doucette

Ten Mile Friends