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Resources Inventory for the Town of Branford |
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APPENDIX
IV SCHOOLS
TOWN PARKS*
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TOWN OPEN SPACE* |
| Location | Facilities/Land-use | Acreage |
| Supply Ponds | picnic area, hiking, nature trails, summer day camp, canoeing, skating, fishing | 339.53 |
| Stony Creek/Pleasant Pt. | trolley trail, tidal wetlands | 37.1 |
| Stony Creek Quarry | natural area, passive recreation | 451.25 |
| Lion's Park (Burban Drive) | -- | 1.0 |
| Pisgah Brook | -- | 259.1 |
| Valley Brook Road South | -- | 0.2 |
| Red Hill Estates | -- | 2.24 |
| O'Neill La. | -- | 1.7 |
| 12 Katie-Joe La. | access to BLT Short Beach Preserve | 0.1 |
| Red Hill Road | -- | 6.5 |
| Weeping Hemlock at Kelly Crest | -- | 0.35 |
| Short Beach Road Detention Pond | -- | 2.4 |
| Ward's Mill Pond | -- | 10.0 |
| Red Rock Road | -- | 19.4 |
| 11 Pawson Landing Drive | -- | 0.33 |
| Pine Orchard Road | -- | 1.07 |
| Oak Hollow Road | -- | 1.62 |
| 25 Blackstone Avenue | -- | 0.74 |
| Club Parkway | -- | 0.5 |
| 18 Crestwood Road | -- | 0.79 |
| 271-305 Northford Road | -- | 1.93 |
| High Plains Road | -- | 0.93 |
| Goodsell Point Road | -- | 0.4 |
| 30 Flat Rock Road | -- | 1.32 |
| 83 Laurel Hill Road | -- | 1.8 |
| Tabor Drive | -- | 17.65 |
| Fair Lawn Avenue | -- | 4.85 |
| Eastwood Drive | -- | 1.7 |
| Pepperwood La. | -- | 2.85 |
| 74 Lantern View Drive | -- | 2.9 |
| 34 Piscitello Drive | -- | 0.67 |
| Queach Road | -- | 4.2 |
| Birch Road | -- | 5.92 |
| Aceto Street | -- | 0.42 |
| 30 Richhill Road | -- | 0.94 |
*unless otherwise noted, land use is passive recreation, Compiled by Branford Planning and Zoning Department
QUASI-PUBLIC FACILITIES
| Park | Facilities | Acreage |
| Foote Memorial Park | tennis courts (8 – hard; 4 – clay), baseball fields (3), lighted (1) and unlit (1) basketball courts, lighted paddle tennis courts (4), volleyball court, horseshoe pits (4), play area, picnic area, scenic overlook, amphitheater, shelter, lavatory building | 38.6 |
| Foote Riverside Park | scenic overlook, passive recreation | 2.0 |
| Branford Little League | baseball field | 5.0 |
| Ecclesiastical Society | passive recreation | 47.66 |
| Killam's Point | passive recreation | 0.3 |
| Branford Electric Railroad Assoc. | train rides | 51.3 |
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
| Parcel | Acreage |
| North Branford Road | 47.3 |
| Democrat Island | 0.95 |
| 30 Goodsell Point Road (boat launch) | 3.4 |
| East Main Street (Fisheries & Game) | 26.18 |
| Rose Hill Road tidal wetlands | 18.94 |
| Pawson Road tidal wetlands | 20+ |
| Pleasant Point tidal wetlands | 33.0 |
| Beacon Hill | 74.4 |
US GOVERNMENT
| Parcel | Acreage |
| Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge (Outer Island) | 2.2 |
YALE UNIVERSITY
| Parcel | Acreage |
| Linsley Pond | 7.1 |
| Leetes Island Road | 44.05 |
| Horse Island | 48.5 |
| Lidyhites Pond | 48.5 |
SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY
| Parcel | Acreage |
| SUPPLY POND WATERSHED | -- |
| Laurel Hill Road | 4.0 |
| SALTONSTALL WATERSHED | -- |
| between reservoir & Hosley Avenue | 593.5 |
| under reservoir & Hosley Avenue | 204.0 |
| east of Hosley Avenue | 9.40 |
| bounded by Hosley Avenue & Cherry Hill Road | 227.4 |
| south of I-95, bounded west by Furnace Avenue | 37.50 |
| south of I-95, bounded west by Hosley Avenue | 11.30 |
| between I-95, Branford Connector & R.R. | 50.90 |
| isolated parcel | 1.30 |
| Furnace Pond | 19.10 |
| south of Route 1 | 2.0 |
| Cherry Hill Road (pumping station) | 0.36 |
| TOTAL HOLDINGS (Dec 31, 2001) | 1160.76 |
BRANFORD LAND TRUST
| parcel | Notes | Acreage |
| SHORT BEACH/BRANFORD HILL/ BRANHAVEN | -- | -- |
| Lower Farm River watershed | -- | -- |
| Minore | -- | 19.5 |
| Branford/Spicebush Terrrace | -- | 1.2 |
| Short Beach Preserve | -- | -- |
| Foote/Prann/Ertelt | -- | 35.0 |
| Prout | -- | 4.3 |
| Jennifer Heights | -- | 6.0 |
| Pantani | -- | 2.1 |
| Isolated parcels | -- | -- |
| Peterson/Kidd's Cave | -- | 0.48 |
| Peterson/Stone Street | -- | 0.31 |
| LAKE SALTONSTALL WATERSHED | -- | -- |
| Seeberg | -- | 3.3 |
| MILL CREEK WATERSHED | -- | -- |
| Upper Mill Creek | -- | -- |
| Hammer | -- | 23.8 |
| Hammer Lea | -- | 2.68 |
| Lower Mill Creek | Disturbed tidal marsh | -- |
| Dingus | -- | 2.7 |
| Lindberg | -- | 7.8 |
| Simpson | -- | 0.34 |
| Morawski | -- | 1.24 |
| PISGAH BROOK/SUPPLY PONDS NATURAL AREA | -- | -- |
| Town of Branford – Laurel Hill Road | -- | 2.2 |
| Ifkovic | -- | 10.2 |
| MAIN STEM OF BRANFORD RIVER | Nearly all salt marsh | -- |
| Towner | -- | 2.75 |
| Sturgess II | -- | 6.7 |
| Beach | -- | 1.8 |
| Congregational Church/Town Meadow | -- | -- |
| Sturgess III, IV | -- | < 5.1 |
| Prann-Ertelt | -- | 1.5 |
| Field | -- | 3.0 +/- |
| Foote I | -- | 5.07 |
| Foote II | Total for Foote I | -- |
| -- | & Foote II | -- |
| Sliney I | 5.5 | -- |
| Foote IV (Jenny Lind) | 2.2 | -- |
| UNNAMED BRANFORD RIVER TRIBUTARIES (from North to South) | -- | -- |
| Brook draining by Intermediate School and I-95 Exit 55 | -- | -- |
| Buza | -- | 9.7 |
| Soffer | -- | 0.95 |
| Brook draining from Tisco School | -- | -- |
| Reynolds (Tisco) | -- | 24.0 |
| Reynolds | -- | 9.8 |
| Smith | -- | 4.0 |
| Russo | -- | 1.8 |
| SYBIL CREEK | -- | -- |
| East of Route 146 | -- | -- |
| Gustafson | includes some upland | 3.3 |
| Foote/Waverly (three parcels) | includes some upland | 33.4 |
| Stratton | -- | 1.5 |
| Foote/Sybil | -- | 23.5 |
| Newton-Crelin | half upland | 8.1 |
| West of Route 146 | -- | -- |
| Tagliatela | (two parcels; marsh) | 13.6 |
| Tagliatela | (5-upland; 15-marsh) | 20 +/- |
| Meffert (part) | -- | 15 |
| PAWSON PARK MARSHES | -- | -- |
| Ecclesiastical Society | -- | 16.7 |
| Meffert (part) | -- | -- |
| OTHER INDIAN NECK MARSHES | -- | -- |
| Foote/Summer Island | -- | < 1.0 |
| Hadley | -- | 1.0 |
| Congregational Church/Summer Island | -- | 0.7 |
| MILL PLAIN/NORTHFORD ROAD TO NORTH BRANFORD ROAD | -- | -- |
| Bontatibus | -- | 6.5 |
| Benchmark | -- | 4.3 |
| Munger Brook (Sachs) | -- | 2.92 |
| SHELDON CREEK (WORLDS END CR.) ASSEMBLAGE (Primarily wetlands and pond) | -- | -- |
| Young (Griffing Pond) | -- | 3.0 +/- |
| Nickou | -- | 2.5 |
| Hayden | -- | 3.78 |
| Young (Young's Pond North) | -- | 12.8 |
| GOSS/VEDDER ASSEMBLAGE (TROLLEY PATH/LONG MARSH CREEK) | -- | -- |
| Vedder | (3 parcels) | 27.2 |
| Berdon | -- | 0.25 |
| Goss | (2 parcels) | 5.05 |
| TRAP ROCK RAILROAD/PEPPERWOOD AREA | -- | -- |
| North end (Branford River watershed) | -- | -- |
| Town of Branford – Gould Lane | -- | 2.7 |
| Anderson-Wilcox North | -- | 0.9 |
| Beechwood | -- | 6.3 |
| South end (Pine Creek watershed) | -- | -- |
| Anderson-Wilcox West | -- | 7.86 |
| Anderson-Wilcox East | -- | 1.09 |
| Collins | -- | 7.53 |
| LOWER PINE CREEK WATERSHED | (Stony Creek Road to Leetes Island Road) | -- |
| DuPont | -- | 2.5 |
| Lowe (easement) | -- | 0.3 |
| Anderson | -- | 3.92 |
| Wies | -- | 11 |
| VAN WIE ASSEMBLAGE | -- | -- |
| Rose Van Wie I | -- | 27.3 |
| Rose Van Wie II | -- | 19.6 |
| W. & A. Van Wie I | -- | 8.8 |
| W. & A. Van Wie II | -- | 15.4 |
| W. & A. Van Wie III | -- | 9.9 |
| W. & A. Van Wie IV | -- | 17.3 |
| Town of Branford II (three parcels) | -- | 5.6 |
| Sullivan/Pantani | -- | 1.48 |
| Brooks R. Kelley Memorial Woods | -- | 30.3 |
| Sullivan/Red Hill Road | -- | 2.99 |
| FLAT ROCK/WHITEWOOD | -- | -- |
| Sullivan-Lyons | -- | 3.8 |
| Dumais | -- | 7.0 +/- |
| Sullivan/Ash Creek Road | -- | 1.9 |
| JARVIS CREEK/STONY CREEK | -- | -- |
| Between Leetes Island Road and Amtrak line | -- | -- |
| Powers | -- | 0.9 |
| Palmer-Welles (four parcels) | -- | 4.1 |
| Rose | -- | 0.7+ |
| South of Amtrak line | -- | -- |
| Washburn | -- | 17.8 |
| Stony Creek Ltd. Partners | -- | 9.0 |
| HOADLEY CREEK PRESERVE | -- | -- |
| Medlyn (w/ Town of Branford) | -- | 48 |
| Pinchot (w/ Guilford LCT ) | -- | 47 |
| ISOLATED SMALL PARCELS | -- | -- |
| Sturgess I | -- | 0.28 |
| Welsh | -- | 1.81 |
| Mattern | -- | 2.53 |
| Ransome | -- | 0.67 |
| Hentschel | -- | 2.0 +/- |
| Land Trust House | 26 School Street | 0.31 |
| MARITIME POSSESSIONS | -- | -- |
| Thimble Islands | (Marine Is., Bernais Reef, Commander Rocks) | -- |
| Childers | -- | -- |
| Thoms (Northford Rock) | -- | -- |
| Indian Neck | -- | -- |
| Foote | -- | -- |
| Short Beach/Killam's Point | -- | -- |
| Murphy (Green Island) | -- | 1.0 |
| Davis (Umbrella Islands) | -- | -- |
| -- | -- | -- |
| TOTAL HOLDINGS (March 31, 2003) | -- | 770 + |