Mill Creek (Mill Cove)
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Mill Creek Pine River |
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| Water code | US : 1218095 | |
| location | Rhode Island (USA) | |
| River system | Mill Creek | |
| source | south of Devil's Foot Road 41 ° 36 ′ 15 ″ N , 71 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ W |
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Mill Cove ( Narragansett Bay , Rhode Island Sound ) Coordinates: 41 ° 34'57 " N , 71 ° 27'5" W 41 ° 34'57 " N , 71 ° 27'5" W. |
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| length | 6 km | |
The Mill Creek ( English for "Mühlbach") (the upper course is called Pine River ) is a short stream in North Kingstown in the US state of Rhode Island .
The river name is derived from a former flour mill on the lower reaches.
The body of water rises south of Devil's Foot Road and flows through residential areas first. East of Post Road ( US Highway 1 ) the Mill Creek / Pine River forms a larger wetland. Then the creek turns south and is partly routed underground through the industrial park of Quonset Point . There a small tributary from the Quonset Golf Course flows into Mill Creek, after which it leaves the industrial park towards the southwest. After crossing under Camp Avenue , Mill Creek forms an estuary that quickly widens in a southerly direction to Mill Cove , a small side bay of Narragansett Bay .
A study of the water quality in 1999 showed increased nitrogen values. The discharge during the observation period was between 159 l / s in April and 30.5 l / s in August.
Web links
- Review of Wickford Harbor Watershed 1999 Monitoring Data. (PDF; 83 kB) University of Rhode Island (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ historicnorthkingstown.com ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
