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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.
English: This image displays a panoramic view of Essex Harbor, located in Essex, Connecticut. The image was taken from Essex Park. The image was taken from Essex Park. The harbor is located at the mouth of the Connecticut River.
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Bellows Falls Canal is a canal constructed to allow boat traffic to bypass Great Falls [1] on the Connecticut River in Bellows Falls, Vermont. [2] It was constructed by the Bellows Falls Canal Company and was one of the first canals in the United States. [3] It was used for transport, to power mills, and later for hydroelectric power.
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.
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 ...
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 ...