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When dominance displays get fluffy
By adamg on Sun, 01/31/2021 - 8:24pm
Mary Ellen watched a couple of swans try to show each other who was King of Jamaica Pond today.
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It isn't frozen over?
Chandler Pond is.
Chandler Pond
was man-made for ice harvesting for the Brighton stockyards, so is only about 5’ deep.
I was happy
To see everyone skating and playing hockey on it yesterday. I don't recall having seen that last winter.
Haven't been there since before the Deep Freeze ...
But Jamaica Pond tends to have unfrozen water longer than most other ponds around here (I think it's the aquarium heaters that they line the banks with).
Isn't it the depth?
Pretty sure it's a kettle pond and so way deeper than other ponds around here, which in turn means it takes longer to freeze overc
Jamaica Pond is a kettle pond
Jamaica Pond is a kettle pond, part of the Emerald Necklace of parks in Boston designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The pond and park are in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, close to the border of Brookline. It is the source of the Muddy River, which drains into the lower Charles River.
The pond has an area of about 68 acres (0.68 ha), and is 53 feet (16 m) deep at its center, making it the largest body of fresh water in Boston, and the largest natural freshwater body in the lower Charles River watershed.
Chandler Pond Ice
Tons of ice carved out of New England waters, including Chandler Pond, were shipped as far as Cuba, the Caribbean, South America and India. Frederic Tudor, known as the Ice King, bought scrap wool from mills in Holyoke and other cities, compressed the wool into felt blankets and sold those as preservers that slowed the ice-melting process.
Although Chandler Pond was excavated by William Strong for an ice pond, it's fed by by Dana Brook, which flows out of Newton. It eventually empties into the Charles River near the Soldier's Field Road Extension.