Kennebec River

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The Kennebec River (Abenaki: Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ) is a 170-mile-long (270 km) natural river within the U.S. state of Maine. It rises in Moosehead Lake in west-central Maine. The East and West Outlets join at Indian Pond and the river flows southward. Harris Station Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in the state, was constructed near that confluence. The river is joined at The Forks by its tributary, the Dead River, also called the West Branch. It continues south past the towns of Madison and Skowhegan, the city of Waterville, the state capital Augusta, the city of Hallowell, and the city of Gardiner. At Richmond, it flows into Merrymeeting Bay, a 16-mile-long (26 km) freshwater tidal bay, into which also flow the Androscoggin River and five smaller rivers. The Kennebec runs past the shipbuilding center of Bath, and has its mouth at the Gulf of Maine in the Atlantic Ocean. The Southern Kennebec flows below the fall line and does not have rapids. As a consequence, ocean tides and saltwater fish...

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