Mill pond

Mill pond
Hagley mill pond on Brandywine Creek which fed the mill race in back, to supply power to the DuPont gunpowder mills

A mill pond is any body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill. Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a mill dam across a waterway. In many places, the common proper name Mill Pond name has remained even though the mill has long since gone. It may be fed by a man-made stream, known by several terms including leat and mill stream.

The term mill pond is often used colloquially to refer to a very flat body of water. Witnesses of the loss of RMS Titanic reported that the sea was "like a mill pond".[1]

References

  1. ^ Ruth Becker Titanic witness



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