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The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for 406 miles (653 km) through four states.
View of Bellows Falls, Vermont, including Bellows Falls Canal as it cuts away from the Connecticut River. A British-owned company was chartered to make the Connecticut River navigable in 1791 and spent 10 years building nine locks and a dam to bypass 52-foot-high (16 m) Great Falls. The canal was completed in 1802.
Navigability also depends on context: a small river may be navigable by smaller craft such as a motorboat or a kayak, but unnavigable by a larger freighter or cruise ship. Shallow rivers may be made navigable by the installation of locks that regulate flow and increase upstream water level, or by dredging that deepens parts of the stream bed.
Along the Connecticut River, many communities faced the worst flooding ever recorded. In Hartford, the river crested at 37.6 feet (11.5 m), a record which still stands as of 2015. [1] Twenty percent of downtown Hartford was navigable only by boat. [13]
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.
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.
One person is dead and two are missing after a boat crash in the Connecticut River Monday night, according to officials.. At around 9:15 p.m. EDT, DEEP Environmental Conservation (EnCon) Police ...
White River; Though navigable-in-fact, parts or all of the following have been excluded from the definition by Congress: Park River in Hartford County, Connecticut [3] Burr Creek in Bridgeport, Connecticut [4] Boston Inner Harbor, Fort Point Channel and South Bay in Boston [5] [6] Acushnet River in the harbor of New Bedford and Fairhaven ...