Milldam
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A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond.[1]
Water passing through a dam's spillway is used to turn a water wheel and provide energy to the many varieties of watermill. By raising the water level so that the overflow has farther to fall, a milldam increases the potential energy that a mill can harness and use for various tasks.[2]
Examples
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Listed are here are some of the many examples of historic milldams and millponds (or place names taken from them).
Examples in the United Kingdom include
- Bramley Millpond in Bramley, Surrey
- Ifield Millpond in Ifield, West Sussex
- Valebridge Millpond on the outskirts of Burgess Hill, West Sussex
- Mill Dam, Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands
Examples in the United States include
- Milldam Rice Mill and Rice Barn in Georgetown County, South Carolina
- Atwater Millpond in Kalamazoo County, Michigan
File:River mill dam governor test.png Ballardvale Millpond in Ballardvale, MassachusettsGovernor for a river mill dam - Bigler's Millpond in Bigler's Mill, Virginia
- Crump's Millpond in Quinton, Virginia
- Gardy's Millpond in Westmoreland and Northumberland County, Virginia
- Glovers Millpond in Glascock County, Georgia
- Goodrich Millpond in Genesee County, Michigan
- Goodwin's Millpond in Marlboro County, South Carolina
- Hands Millpond in Cape May County, New Jersey
- Merchants Millpond State Park in Gates County, North Carolina
- Milldam, Concord, Massachusetts
- Millpond, a small lake in Butler, New York
- Millpond Acres in Sussex County, Delaware
- Millpond Park in Mount Pleasant, Michigan
- Millpond Plantation in Thomas County, Georgia
- Millpond Reservoir in Burlington, Massachusetts
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Milldam definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Donovan, Mitchell; Miller, Andrew; Baker, Matthew (September 2016). "Reassessing the role of milldams in Piedmont floodplain development and remobilization". Geomorphology. 268: 133–145. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.06.007.
