Mill pond

A mill pond is any body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill. Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a mill dam across a waterway. In many places, the common proper name Mill Pond name 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 term mill pond is often used colloquially to refer to a very flat body of water. Witnesses of the loss of RMS Titanic reported that the sea was "like a mill pond".^[1]

References

^ Ruth Becker Titanic witness

Ponds, pools and puddles

Ponds	Ash pond Balancing pond Ballast pond Beel Cooling pond Detention pond Dew pond Evaporation pond Garden pond Ice pond Immersion pond Kettle pond Melt pond Mill pond Raceway pond Retention pond Sag pond Salt evaporation pond Sediment pond Settling pond Solar pond Stabilization pond Stepwell Stew pond Stormwater management pond Polishing pond Tailings pond Tarn Treatment pond Waste pond

Pools	Anchialine pool Brine pool Natural pool Plunge pool Reflecting pool Spent fuel pool Stream pool Swimming pool Tide pool Vernal pool

Puddles	Bird bath Coffee ring Puddle Puddles on a surface Seep puddle

Biota	Beaver pond Common pond skater Common puddle frog Duck pond Fish pond Goldfish pond Koi pond Lotus Pond heron Pond lily Pond snail Pond turtle Pondweed

Ecosystems	Freshwater ecosystem Lake ecosystem Lentic ecosystem Pond ecosystem

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