A mill pond (or millpond ) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill .
3-435: Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a mill dam or weir (and mill stream) across a waterway . In many places, the common proper name Mill Pond 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 channel or stream leading from the mill pond is the mill race , which together with weirs, dams, channels and
6-401: The sea was "like a mill pond". Mill dam A mill dam (International English) or milldam (US) is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a mill pond . 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
9-432: The terrain establishing the mill pond, delivers water to the mill wheel to convert potential and/or kinetic energy of the water to mechanical energy by rotating the mill wheel. The production of mechanical power is the purpose of this civil engineering hydraulic system. The term mill pond is often used colloquially and in literature to refer to a very flat body of water. Witnesses of the loss of RMS Titanic reported that
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