Connecticut River
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A who’s who says where to go...Mount Wachusett any time of year. "If you hike on the backside of the mountain, you're hiking in the largest old growth forest east of the Connecticut River,'' he says of Wachusett. "Most people don't realize just an hour west of Boston is... In this article: Ming Tsai and Lenny Clarke |
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | 2 days ago
Up an ugly river
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING The Connecticut River flows for 410 miles until it empties into Long Island Sound at this lighthouse on Saybrook Jetty. (Al Braden) The Connecticut River starts as a trickle up in northern...
In this article: Fine Arts Work Center, Suicide, E mail, National Book Award, Vampires, Stephenie Meyer, and The Time Traveler's Wife
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Burlington Free Press | 5 days ago
Vermont seasons (weather) play starring role in movies
...the silent era, lead actress Lillian Gish portrayed a lady in distress. But, in her 1969 memoir, she recalled a more personal peril on the Connecticut River: "The temperature never rose above zero during the three weeks we worked there. I...
In this article: Vermont, Alfred Hitchcock, The Trouble with Harry, Lillian Gish, John Michael Hayes, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Zemeckis, D.W. Griffith, California, and White Christmas
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Hartford Courant | 7 days ago
River Search For Missing Man Called Off
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River Search For Missing Man Not Likely To Continue Video
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Conn. crews to continue search for missing man
...FOR EASY PRINTING EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -Dive teams plan to resume a search for a man who went missing after a minivan sank in the Connecticut River in East Hartford. Police were called to a boat launch at about 6:30 a.m. Sunday and found...
In this article: Connecticut, All rights reserved, Berlin, and Associated Press
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Battle Brewing Over Rocky Hill's Plans To Seize Land Along River
...and roofs have made for a structural mess. Rocky Hill town officials are trying to acquire the land where the old foundry sits on the Connecticut River to develop a community park and recreation area. (BETTINA HANSEN / HARTFORD COURANT /...
In this article: Rocky Hill, Conservation, and U.S. Supreme Court
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Divers Search For Man In Connecticut River
...- A search and recovery effort was underway in East Hartford Sunday morning as dive teams attempted to locate a man who may be missing in the Connecticut River. Police received a call around 6:30 Sunday morning about a Ford Windstar minivan...
In this article: Riverside Park, East Hartford, Ford Windstar, and Berlin
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Conn. crews searching for man in river
...BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING EAST HARTFORD, Conn. -Emergency crews are searching for a man whose minivan has been found in the Connecticut River. A fire official tells WVIT-TV that dive teams are on the scene, which is located near a...
In this article: Connecticut, WVIT, All rights reserved, E mail, and Associated Press
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Conn. targets invasive plants
...vine in New Milford and Newtown, and water chestnut plants that took hold in a Hartford flood control pond after getting into the Connecticut River. © Copyright 2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be...
In this article: Connecticut, All rights reserved, E mail, Department of Environmental Protection, Morris, and Associated Press
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Expert: Vt Yankee nuke pipes carried radioactivity
...expert says the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant failed to disclose that some of its underground pipes leaked radioactive material into the Connecticut River. Legislative consultant Arne Gunderson says he was surprised to learn that the Vernon...
In this article: All rights reserved, Cobalt, Vermont Public Radio, Montpelier, Vermont, and Associated Press
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The Connecticut River is the largest river in New England, flowing south from the Connecticut Lakes in northern New Hampshire, along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont, through western Massachusetts and central Connecticut into Long Island Sound at Old Saybrook, Connecticut. It has a total length of 407 mi, and a drainage basin extending over 11250 sqmi. The mean freshwater discharge into Long Island Sound is 19600 cuft per second. The river is tidal up to Windsor Locks, approximately 60 mi from the mouth. The source of the Connecticut River is the Fourth Connecticut Lake in New Hampshire. Some tributaries include the Ashuelot, West, Miller's, Mill, Deerfield, White, and Chicopee rivers. (The Swift River, a tributary of the Chicopee, has been largely replaced by the Quabbin Reservoir which provides water to Boston.)
The river carries a heavy amount of silt, especially during the spring snow melt, from as far north as Quebec. The heavy silt concentration of the river forms a large sandbar near its mouth on Long Island Sound and has historically provided a formidable obstacle to navigation. The difficulty of navigation on the river is the primary reason that it is one of the few large rivers in the region without a major city near its mouth. The Connecticut River estuary and tidal wetlands complex is listed as one of the 1,759 wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
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