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Satellite image of the Connecticut River depositing silt into Long Island Sound. The Connecticut River carries a heavy amount of silt from as far north as Quebec, especially during the spring snow melt. This results in a large sandbar near the river's mouth which is a formidable obstacle to navigation.
This is a route-map template for the Connecticut River, a waterway in the United States.. For a key to symbols, see {{waterways legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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The South Hadley Canal was a canal along the Connecticut River in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the earliest navigable canal in the United States , with operation commencing in 1795. [ 2 ] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the South Hadley Canal Historic District .
This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Connecticut River from its mouth at Long Island Sound upstream to its source at the Connecticut Lakes. The list includes current road and rail crossings, as well as ferries carrying a state highway across the river. Some pedestrian bridges and abandoned bridges are also listed.
These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The New England region, which is listed with a 2-digit hydrologic unit code (HUC) of 01, has an approximate size of 73,753 square miles (191,020 square kilometers ), and consists of 11 sub-regions, which ...
The land on either side of the Connecticut River Valley is less suitable for farmlands. The eastern section holds the shallow Proto-North American Terrane while the western section contains the Iapetos and Avalonian Terranes , which still holds remnants of glacial till and lack the soft fluvial sediments so prominent in the Connecticut River ...
Most of Connecticut's rivers flow into Long Island Sound and from there the waters mix into the Atlantic Ocean. A few extremely eastern rivers flow into Block Island Sound . The list is arranged by drainage basin from east to west, with respective tributaries indented from downstream to upstream under each larger stream's name.