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Train going over a trestle bridge above the Swift River in 1910 Construction of the Route 32 / Route 122 bridge over the Swift River in 2009 near Petersham, Massachusetts. The Swift River is a river in Massachusetts, United States. It has an east branch, a west branch, and a middle branch. [1] It is a tributary of the Ware River.
Swift water rescue (also called "white water rescue") is a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions. Due to the added pressure of moving water, swift water rescue involves the use of specially trained personnel, ropes and mechanical advantage systems that are often much more robust than those used in standard rope rescue .
The Swift River is a river of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows south through a valley between the Black Hill and Mount Hutt Ranges to reach the north branch of the Ashburton River / Hakatere 25 kilometres (16 mi) northwest of Methven .
The Swift River (Jamaica) is a river of Jamaica. The river had massive floods during the 1930s {1932–1940}, which nearly brought the only major settlement, which shares the same name, to extinction .
The East Branch Swift River is a 10.2-mile-long (16.4 km) [1] tributary of the Swift River in western Maine. Via the Swift River, it is part of the Androscoggin River watershed, which flows to the Kennebec River and ultimately the Atlantic Ocean .
Seven towns of the Quabbin Valley. Parts of Palmer, immediately to the south, also lie within the Swift River Valley. [citation needed] View from Quabbin Hill Road in Ware, overlooking where the former town of Enfield was submerged. The Quabbin Valley is a region of Massachusetts in the United States.
The Swift River (Deg Xinag: Xelinhdi; Dena'ina: Huch'altnu) is a tributary, about 100 miles (160 km) long, of the Kuskokwim River in the U.S. state of Alaska. [3] Formed by meltwater from several glaciers in the Revelation Mountains of the Alaska Range, the river flows generally west and northwest to meet the larger stream 13 miles (21 km) northeast of Sleetmute.
Swift River is a settlement in the Canadian territory of Yukon, primarily a service stop on the Alaska Highway at historical mile 733. The radius of the area is estimated to be about 22.71 square kilometres (8.77 square miles)).