Trustom Pond Explained

Trustom Pond
Pushpin Map:Rhode Island
Location:South Kingstown Washington County, Rhode Island
Type:saline
Inflow:precipitation, groundwater
Catchment:794acres
Basin Countries:United States
Area:180acres
Depth:1.3feet
Elevation:0feet
Reference:[1]

Trustom Pond is a closed lagoon in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States.[2] It is one of nine coastal lagoons (referred to as "salt ponds" by locals) in southern Rhode Island.[3] [4] It has a surface area of, and is the only undeveloped salt pond in the state.[5] The pond averages deep, and has a salinity level of 5 parts per thousand. It is non-tidal, except when breached by storms.[1] The water directly receives about 219844022USgal of precipitation per year, with an estimated 796215USgal in daily groundwater flow.[6] No streams flow into the pond, though a nearby stream "captures water that otherwise would have flowed to Trustom Pond".[7]

Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge, inhabited by an estimated 300 species of birds, as well as some 40 species of mammals and 20 species of reptiles and amphibians.[8] As such, it is a popular bird-watching destination.[9] The piping plover inhabits the site.[10] In 1974, of land were donated to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; subsequent donations and purchases raised the protected area to .[8] In 2010, the wildlife refuge received approximately 70,000 visitors.[10] Trustom Pond NWR includes 3miles of nature trails.[10] Habitat areas within Trustom Pond NWR include fields, shrubland, woodland, freshwater pond, saltwater ponds, beaches, and sand dunes.[8] Wildlife managers create breachways to the Block Island Sound, lowering water levels and creating mudflats which become feeding areas for waders.[11]

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  1. Web site: Trustom Pond General Features Data . Rhode Island South Shore Sea Grant . 2009-05-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080908091929/http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/coasts/trustom/trustomGFD.html . September 8, 2008 ., quoting RIGIS 2001 (area) and Lee 1980 (salinity)
  2. Web site: Salt Ponds of Rhode Island . Rhode Island Sea Grant . 2009-05-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080517014016/http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/bookstore/saltpond.pdf . May 17, 2008 .
  3. Web site: Donald Wyatt. Rhode Island's last execution. 1995. FAQs.org. 2009-05-25.
  4. Web site: S.W. Nixon and B. A. Buckley. Nitrogen Inputs to Rhode Island Coastal Salt – Too Much of a Good Thing. 2007. Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. 2009-05-25.
  5. Web site: Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge. VisitRhodeIsland.com . 2009-05-25.
  6. Web site: Trustom Pond Freshwater Input Data . Rhode Island South Shore Sea Grant . 2009-05-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716235002/http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/coasts/trustom/trustomFID.html . July 16, 2011 .
  7. Book: John P. Masterson, Jason R. Sorenson, Janet R. Stone, S. Bradley Moran, and Andrea Hougham. Hydrogeology and Simulated Groundwater Flow in the Salt Pond Region of Southern Rhode Island. 2007. United States Geological Survey. 978-1-4223-2575-9. 30.
  8. Web site: Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. December 25, 2019.
  9. Web site: Bird Watching & Wildlife Refuges . South County Tourism Council. 2009-05-25.
  10. https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Region_5/NWRS/North_Zone/Rhode_Island_Complex/TrustomPond2011.pdf Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge: Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex: Fact Sheet for Members of Congress
  11. Book: Mark Damian Duda and Robert Field. Watching Wildlife. 1995. Globe Pequot. 1-56044-315-4. 80.

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