Natural Resource Inventory and Assessment - Town of Guilford

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• Sucker Brook - discharges to Lake Quonnipaug
• Quonnipaug Pond - (common name for swampy northern end of Lake Quonnipaug); flows
under Route 77 to Lake Quonnipaug
• Lake Quonnipaug - (major recreational water body); outlet at southern end begins the
West River
• Schoolhouse Brook - (flows through ravine along Hemlock Avenue); discharges to
West River
• Baldwin Dudley Pond - (bisected by Ledge Hill Road)
• Ivy Swamp - drains to West River
• Unnamed swamp and stream - drain to Endres Pond
• Endres Pond - outlets to Spinning Mill Brook
• Thirsty Lake - outlets to West River
• Witch Hazel Mill Pond - an impoundment of West River
• Bishops Pond - outlets to unnamed brook west of Cox Elementary School, which drains to
West River
• Town Millpond - an impoundment of a branch of the West River
• Spinning Mill Brook - discharges to West River (at Long Hill Road near Route 1)
• West River and West River Tidal Marshes - discharge to Guilford Harbor, part of the Sound
East River Basin (#5108) - half this basin lies within Guilford and half within Madison.
• Little Meadow Brook - (headwaters begin just over the Madison line); (public water supply
watershed area); drains south, diverted to SCCRWA Genesee Tunnel Aqueduct; ...
undiverted flow continues south, discharging to Capello Pond
• Hall Lot Brook - (parallels Hoop Pole Road, to the east); joins Little Meadow Brook
• Kelsey Pond - an impoundment of Hall Lot Brook
• Malley’s Pond - (just south of Route 80); an impoundment of Little Meadow Brook
• Iron Stream - (headwaters in Madison); discharges to Laurel Lake (northern-most
Guilford Lake)
• Maupus Pond - (west side of Maupus Road)-drains via unnamed stream to third
Guilford Lake
• Two unnamed ponds - (west side of Maupus Road)
• Guilford Lakes - a lake system which drains south from Laurel Lake, to Middle Lake,
to Lower Lake; outlet drains south to Capello Pond
• Capello Pond - (in Nut Plains); outlet begins the East River
• Three unnamed ponds - (former gravel pits); drain to East River
• Old Scroggie Pond - (east side of Clapboard Hill Road); outlets south via unnamed stream
to East River marshes
• East River - (a freshwater-brackish-tidal river; near I-95, a segment of river forms
Guilford/Madison boundary line); (original drainage altered by Amtrak construction)
basin boundary is the Amtrak bed (south of this point river and marshes flow directly into
Sound, part of the South Central Shoreline Basin - see below)
Neck River Basin (#5107) - small section of basin lies within Guilford. Majority of basin flows
through Madison, discharging to the East River at the town line at Grass Island.
• Neck River - (river segment from Podunk Road area to Opening Hill Road just south of
Gould’s Pond; river forms town boundary between Guilford and Madison here;
headwaters and balance of river lie in Madison; discharges to East River at town line
at Grass Island)
• Gould’s Pond - (bisected by town line); an impoundment of Neck River
Sluice Creek Basin (#5109) - basin lies entirely within Guilford.
• Unnamed stream - drains freshwater marsh (west of Goose Lane) to the south
• Unnamed stream - (draining area to the west); joins above stream
Natural Resource Inventory and Assessment Town of Guilford, CT