The Santuit River, also known as the Cotuit River, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
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accessed April 1, 2011 river marking the boundary between Mashpee and

Cotuit, Massachusetts Cotuit ( ) is one of the villages of the Town of Barnstable on Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Located on a peninsula on the south side of Barnstable about midway between Falmouth and Hyannis, Cotuit is bounded by ...

, on

Cape Cod Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer months. The ...

. The river flows south from the southern end of Santuit Pond into Popponesset Bay (also known as Shoestring Bay) on the south shore of

. The river was a vigorous

herring Herring are various species of forage fish, belonging to the Order (biology), order Clupeiformes. Herring often move in large Shoaling and schooling, schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate wate ...

/ alewife run and is known to support sea-run

brown trout The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus ''Salmo'', endemic to most of Europe, West Asia and parts of North Africa, and has been widely introduced globally ...

. In the early 1990s, it was alleged that overpumping by an adjacent golf course caused the river to run dry. The golf course denied these allegations.

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