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The Ten Mile River is a river within the U.S. states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It flows approximately 22 miles (35 km) and drains a watershed of 54 square miles (140 km 2). [1] The North Attleborough National Fish Hatchery is located in its upper reaches, and the river offers stocked trout fishing in the spring.
Bristol County is a county located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census , the population was 50,793, [ 4 ] making it the least populous county in Rhode Island. In terms of land area, it is the third-smallest county in the United States , at only 25 square miles (65 km 2 ).
The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling [1]) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river [2] in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, [3] flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport.
The Taunton River watershed is mostly situated in Bristol County and western Plymouth County, while some portions of it extends into parts of southern Norfolk County. The Taunton River watershed includes: 7 species of freshwater mussels; 27 different habitat types; 29 species of native fish; 114 species of birds.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, United States: Referred to by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as “the most polluted river in the country because of high concentrations of toxic sediments.” [135] Primarily wastewater from the Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District. [136]
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By the mid nineteenth century, the pollution in the Moshassuck River had become so bad from factories dumping both industrial and human waste into the water that Rhode Island's cholera outbreaks of 1849 and 1854 were blamed on the state of the river. The first cleanup attempt on the river was started in 1897 by building sewers.