Fed by the three branches of the Swift, and seasonally by the Ware River. You'll need to leave pups at home dogs aren't allowed on this trail. Parking fees apply to shore fishing at Boat Launch Areas. Finding trout and tranquility at Quabbin Reservoir Click here for more information about where dogs are allowed on DCR properties. In July 1939 engineers stopped diverting the Swift River and allowed it to back up, slowly flooding the valley. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. Please see theInstructions for Using the Quabbin Reservoir Public Access Road and Trail Interactive Mapfor information about the mobile app. A 1922 study officially endorsed the Swift River Valley as the next extension of the water system and created the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), now the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA), to oversee the construction and maintain the system after its completion. Four residence halls at the nearby Eagle Hill School are also named for the four towns: Greenwich, Prescott, Dana, and Enfield. The Quabbin Reservoir Watershed (including the reservoir itself) covers 120,000 acres: 64 percent of this area is owned by DCR; the remaining 36 percent is permanently protected by state agencies and nongovernmental organizations including MassWildlife, Mass Audubon, TTOR, and Harvard Forest. By the end of the decade, the raptors began to nest at Quabbin. Today, the Quabbin Reservoir is 39 square miles of gorgeous lake landscape. She thought a moment. **Afternoon rental starts at 12:30 p.m.DCR will accept only credit cards at the three boat launch areas starting in the 2022 Season (debit card, Master Card, Visa, or Discover; American Express is not accepted). Stories of church steeples emerging from the reservoir when the water level drops are just that stories. On August 14, 1939, that tunnel was sealed with rock. Chock blocks on vehicles when launching or removing boat from the reservoir. Once the site of the towns of Dana, Prescott, Enfield, and Greenwich, the Swift River Valley was stripped of homes and businesses, a state highway, railroad line, and 34 cemeteries during reservoir construction. However, there were four small towns Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott in the Swift River Valley. During his 2020 Massachusetts Democratic primary campaign for U.S. Senate, former U.S. Representative, Kelkowski, Ed. There was no major industry in the area; no highways passed through; no landmarks stood in the way. Fed by the three branches of the Swift, and seasonally by the Ware River, the reservoir is 18 miles long with 181 miles of shoreline, a capacity of 412 billion gallons and covers 25,000 acres when full.