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The Sebasticook River is a 76-mile-long (122 km)[1] river in the central part of Maine, in the United States. From its source (45°03′17″N 69°13′36″W) in Dexter, the upper "Main Stream" section flows generally west and south 30 miles (48 km) to Great Moose Lake. From the outlet of the lake in Hartland, the Sebasticook flows 41 miles (66 km) south to the Kennebec River in Winslow.

Sebasticook River
Location
Country	United States
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Maine
• elevation	750 feet (230 m)
Mouth
• location	Kennebec River
• coordinates	44°32′19″N 69°37′54″W
• elevation	32 feet (10 m)
Length	76 miles (122 km)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	East Branch Sebasticook River

According to the Sebasticook Regional Land Trust:

The Sebasticook River is the largest tributary (985 square miles) to the Kennebec and thus plays an important role in the restoration of both the anadromous and resident aquatic fisheries of the Kennebec basin and the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. Due to its relatively close proximity to the lower Kennebec, large drainage area, and low gradient, this watershed historically contributed a major percentage of available spawning and nursery habitat for anadromous runs of alewife, blueback herring, American shad, rainbow smelt, and striped bass associated with the Kennebec River watershed and Gulf of Maine ecosystems. To a lesser extent, the river provided habitat for Atlantic salmon.

Great Moose Lake

Great Moose Lake
Great Moose Lake
Location	Somerset County, Maine
Coordinates	44°55′N 69°31′W[2]
Basin countries	United States
Max. length	5 mi (8.0 km)[3]
Max. width	1.5 mi (2.4 km)[3]
Surface area	3,856 acres (1,560 ha)[4]
Max. depth	50 feet (15 m)[5]
Water volume	52,697 acre⋅ft (65,001,000 m3)[4]
Surface elevation	243 ft (74 m)[2]

Great Moose Lake (formerly known as Moose Pond) is the second-largest lake in the Sebasticook River watershed, and the largest on the main stem of the river.[3] The lake is a good habitat for smallmouth bass, white perch, chain pickerel, and rainbow smelt.[5] Lake tributaries Black Stream, Wichee Brook, Brown Brook, Higgins Brook, Goodwin Brook, and Little Ferguson Brook provide smelt spawning habitat.[3] Despite marginal summer conditions of warm surface waters and low dissolved oxygen concentrations below the 7-metre (23 ft) thermocline, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has attempted to stock the lake with salmon.[5]

See also

• List of rivers of Maine

References

• "Sebasticook River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. 30 September 1980. Retrieved 2013-05-20.
• "Main Stream Sebasticook River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. 30 September 1980. Retrieved 2013-05-20.

External links

• Sebasticook Regional Land Trust

На других языках

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[de] Sebasticook River

Der Sebasticook River ist ein linker Nebenfluss des Kennebec River im US-Bundesstaat Maine.

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- [en] Sebasticook River

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