Whiting Street Reservoir

{{Infobox dam

| name = Whiting Street Reservoir

| name_official = Whiting Street Reservoir

| image = Holyoke Whiting Street Reservoir.jpg

| image_caption = Pine stand on the shores of Whiting Reservoir

| image_size = 250

| country = United States of America

| location = Holyoke, Massachusetts

| purpose = Drinking water supply

| coordinates = {{coord|42.241509|N|72.636026|W|format=dms|type:waterbody_region:US-MA|display=inline,title}}

| status = Operational

| opening = 1888

| owner = City of Holyoke

| operator = Holyoke Water Works

| res_name =

| res_capacity_total = {{convert|479|e6USgal|abbr=on}}

| res_catchment = {{convert|897|acres|abbr=on}}

| res_surface = {{convert|114|acres|abbr=on}}

| res_max_length = {{convert|6280|feet|m|abbr=on}}

| res_max_depth =

| res_elevation = {{convert|118|m|order=flip|abbr=on}}{{gnis|608825}}

| location_map = USA Holyoke#USA Massachusetts#USA

| location_map_caption = Location in the United States

| location_map_size = 180px

| website = http://www.holyoke.org/departments/water-works/

}}

Whiting Street Reservoir, often shortened as Whiting Reservoir a Class I hazard reservoir, is an auxiliary drinking supply for the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The reservoir has an impound capacity of more than 479 million gallons of water and a safe yield of {{convert|1.5|e6USgal|m3}} of water per day.{{cite web|title=HWW The Water System|website=City of Holyoke|url=https://www.holyoke.org/hww-the-water-system/|access-date=June 23, 2020}}

File:Whiting Street Reservoir Gatehouse (1904).jpg

The reservoir's construction finished and it became fully operational in 1888, with an access road added in 1897. The reservoir was built by damming up Raging Brook with a sandstone dam and earthen berm. Though the third water source added to the Holyoke Water Works, the reservoir was the first in the system to be created by a dam.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200623230350/http://www.holyokecanaltour.org/special-topics/water-use-in-holyoke/whiting-street-reservoir/|archive-date=June 23, 2020|url=http://www.holyokecanaltour.org/special-topics/water-use-in-holyoke/whiting-street-reservoir|title=Whiting Street Reservoir|website=Holyoke Canal System Tour|year=2019}} Fishing is not allowed in the reservoir to protect against aquatic invasive species. Following new filtration requirements in the 1980s, the Reservoir was put on standby in the early 1990s.{{cite news|work=Springfield Union-News|last=Lauer|first=Martin J.|date=July 21, 1987|title=Water rates could triple, Proulx warns|location=Springfield, Mass.|page=3}}

Regulations designed to ensure pure water include the prohibiting of dogs, horseback riding, camping, smoking, sledding and motorcycle riding are among prohibited activities from the reservoir and abutting property.{{Cite web|url=http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/04/somebodys_going_to_get_killed.html|title=Holyoke Council wants risky reservoir entrance addressed|date=20 April 2017}} The trail and access road around the reservoir was rededicated in 2018 as the Rudy Lengieza Cross Country Course for a former coach of high schools' boys and girls cross-country Holyoke Catholic High School who had served in that post for more than 50 years.{{cite news|url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/06/coach_rudi_to_get_honored_with.html|title='Coach Rudy' to get honored with plaque dedication in Holyoke|last=Plaisance|first=Mike|work=The Republican|location=Springfield, Mass.|date=June 21, 2018}}