Broad Brook Canal
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The Broad Brook Canal is a water-supply canal feeding the Springfield Reservoir (a.k.a. the Ludlow Reservoir) in Ludlow, Massachusetts, a public water supply for the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. Its northern segment is also known as the Jabish Canal.
The canal was first constructed circa 1875. It was Script error: No such module "convert". in length, and fed the Springfield Reservoir at its eastern side with water collected in the Belchertown Reservoir and swamp. This water, however, was thought to be of poor quality, and thus in 1890–1891 the canal was extended north through the Belchertown Reservoir to Jabish Brook, east of Broad Brook. After this addition, the canal's total length was about Script error: No such module "convert"., of which Script error: No such module "convert". ran through a cast-iron pipe (54 inches in diameter) across the Cherry Valley dam. The entire canal was worked to be Script error: No such module "convert". wide at the surface, Script error: No such module "convert". wide at the bottom, with a depth of Script error: No such module "convert"..
References
- Springfield (Massachusetts) Board of Water Commissioners, Report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1875, page 61.
- Moses Nelson Baker, The Manual of American Water-works, New York : Engineering News Publishing Company, 1891, page 41.
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Examinations by the State Board of Health of the Water Supplies and Inland Waters of Massachusetts, Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1890, page 297.