Connecticut River

United States California total PCBs Hunter s Point Islais Creek Long Beach 1984-89 Oakland Bay Palos Verdes 1984-89 San Diego Bay 1984-89 San Francisco Bay San Pablo Bay San Pedro Bay 1984-89 Santa Monica Bay 1984-89 Southampton Shoal Connecticut 1984-89 total PCBs Connecticut River Long Island Sound Florida 1984-89 total PCBs Choctawhatchee Bay St. Andrews Bay Tampa Bay... 

Newsted JL University of The Evaluation of Halogenated Massachusetts Forestry Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Fish from and Wildlife Management the Connecticut River Basin, MA Amherst, MA U.S. Department of Agriculture... 

Mylon SE, Twining BS, Fisher NS, Benoit G. Relating the speciation of Cd, Cu, and Pb in two Connecticut rivers with their uptake in algae. Env. Sci. Technol. 2003 37 1261-1267. 

South of Hartford, along the scenic Connecticut River, Middletown is a good stop if only to visit It s Only Natural health food market and international vegan restaurant (386 Main St., B 860-346-1786 [market], b 860-346-9210 [restaurant]). 

The slopes of the outwash surface along the shore of central Long Island Sound and of the nearby valley trains are listed in Table I. Also listed in the table for comparison are the slopes of the Fall Zone surface and of the New England upland surface. All these slopes will have been increased subsequent to deglaciation by tilting of the land surface due to viscous rebound after removal of the ice load. An estimate of this increase in slope can be made from the tilt of the shorelines of glacial Lake Hitchcock, which occupied much of the valley of the Connecticut River and was drained about 10,700 yr bp (Flint, 1956). We will assume that the regional tilt due to rebound since that time is the same as the 0.8 x 10 -rad tilt (Emerson, 1898 Jahns and Willard, 1942 Koteff, 1968) of the lake shorelines. Hence, the present slopes would have to be reduced by 0.8 x... 

Long Island Sound is connected to the sea by three passes at its eastern end and by the East River (through New York Harbor) at its western end. The principal source of fresh water entering the Sound is the Connecticut River, which enters near the eastern end, as shown in Fig. 11. Thus the Sound does not have the conventional configuration of an estuary with... 

Sound is the Connecticut River, which drains most of central New England and enters the Sound near its eastern end. This is an area of strong mixing (because of a high level of tide-stream turbulence) and sediment brought down the river is mixed into the bottom water that subsequently flows into the central Sound. The extensive deposits of silt-clay sediment in the central basin of the Sound are formed, therefore, as a consequence of the estuarine circulation. 

Garvine, R. W. (1974). Physical features of the Connecticut River outflow during high discharge. J. Geophys. Res. 79, 831-846. 

Suspended load data comparable to those for the Connecticut River are not available for the other streams entering Long Island Sound. All these have much smaller discharges and it is estimated that they contribute only about an additional 10% of the Connecticut River input to the Sound. 

Fig. 15. Boundaries of the lake that occupied the basin of Long Island Sound before the sea reached the elevation of the sadle on the Mattituck sill. The Connecticut River (CR) did not flow into this lake.

The specific dissipation due to river power is most likely to be important near the head end of an estuary, but in some estuaries where the discharge is very large and the tide weak, power from the inflow of fresh water may dominate throughout. The specific dissipation due to the fresh water flow is 7 dSu, where is the mean flow speed, S the slope of the water surface, d the depth, and 7 the unit weight of water. Long Island Sound has no significant area where the specific dissipation due to fresh water inflow is dominant. In the estuary of the Connecticut River it is expected that river power will be a significant fraction of the tidal power when the river is in spate, but detailed calculations have not been done. 

Anonymous (1974). Connecticut River Basin Bank Erosion Study (Reconnaissance Report). New England River Basins Commission, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Anonymous (1975). Connecticut River Basin Program, Part III of Phase I, Water Quality Reconnaissance for the Connecticut River Supplemental Study. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Region I. 

A study of Connecticut streams (Turekian, 1971) indicated that the trace metals, cobalt and silver, are maintained at low concentrations in solution as the result of the scavenging action of suspended particles. Even where acid industrial wastes are dumped into the stream, as in the Naugatuck River, which joins the Housatonic River, suspended particles act to lower the dissolved concentrations. We infer from studies involving the behavior of Pb in the Susquehanna River and of Co and Ag in the major Connecticut rivers that the dissolved trace-metal concentration is maintained at low levels in stream water and thus the primary mode of transportation to the estuarine zone is via particles. 

The Connecticut River, although the most important river draining into Long Island Sound, seems to be least important in the transport of metals... 

Fig. 15. Location map of mussel sampling sites MC, Morris Cove UI, United Illuminating Company, New Haven harbor generating plant site OB, Oyster Bay EN, Eaton s Neck PJ, Port Jefferson WC, west side of Connecticut River mouth EC, east side of Connecticut River mouth.

Fig. 16. Copper concentrations of soft tissues of mussels at sites designated in Fig. 15. The bar labeled LI represents the range of values from the Long Island north shore sites OB, EN, and PJ. The locations designated WB, H, NH, and C are the Whitestone Bridge, Housatonic River, New Haven Harbor, and Connecticut River as shown in Fig. 15. (Data from sources described in text.)...

Anonymous (1887). Ellis, Theodore G. Appletons cyclopaedia of American biography 2 334. Ellis, T.G. (1866). Description of the iron bridge over the Connecticut River, on the Hartford New Haven R.R. Brown Gross Hartford CT. 

Ellis, T.G. (1878). Surveys and examinations of Connecticut River. House of Representatives, Report of the Chief of Engineers, Appendix B14 248-391. Washington DC. 

Charles Francis was the third son of Janies Bicheno Francis (1815-1892), one of the most famous US hydraulic engineers. Charles entered in 1860 Harvard University, graduating after war service in 1864. He remained for some time at Lowell MA, learning the trade of machinist, as a preliminary to following his father s profession as a hydraulic engineer. He was assistant to his father on the Turner Falls Dam across Connecticut River, and the Provincetown MA Dike. 

Bacon, E.M. (1911). The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut Three hundred and fifty miles from mountain to sea. Bangor ME. 

Love, N.D. (1903). The navigation of the Connecticut River. Hamilton Worcester. http //www.forgeofinnovation.org/Springfield Armory l 794-1812/index.html P... 

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