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The Little Scioto River rises in western Jackson County and flows generally southwardly into Scioto County, near Minford. It flows into the Ohio River in the eastern part of the city of Portsmouth, [3] 6 miles (9.7 km) east of the town's center. [4] The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Little Scioto River" as the stream's ...
The Little Scioto River is a tributary of the Scioto River, 27.2 miles (43.8 km) long, in central Ohio in the United States.Via the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 111 square miles (290 km 2).
An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to dumping more than 7,000 gallons of polluted liquids into the Scioto River, killing more than 43,000 fish.. Mark Shepherd, 72, of Kenton, was sentenced Monday to ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Ohio designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
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Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 435 square miles (1,130 km 2). [5] According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as "Brush Creek", "Elk Creek", and "Little Scioto River". [6]
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Map of the Scioto River watershed. The Scioto River (/ s aɪ ˈ oʊ t ə / sy-OH-tə) is a river in central and southern Ohio more than 231 miles (372 km) in length. [4] It rises in Hardin County just north of Roundhead, Ohio, flows through Columbus, Ohio, where it collects its largest tributary, the Olentangy River, flows south into Appalachian Ohio, and meets the Ohio River at Portsmouth.