Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Pequest River is a 35.7-mile-long (57.5 km) [1] tributary of the Delaware River in the Skylands Region in northwestern New Jersey in the United States. [5]The Pequest, Native American for "open land," [5] drains an area of 162.62 square miles (421.2 km 2) across Sussex and Warren counties, consisting of ten municipalities.
From New Jersey, the Big Flatbrook, Pequest, Musconetcong, and Maurice rivers, plus Oldmans, Raccoon and Rancocas creeks, flow into the Delaware. Tributaries are arranged generally north to south from the source of the river to its mouth, its confluence with the Delaware River, tributaries within that rivers' watershed are mentioned in notes.
This is a list of rivers in the continental United States by average discharge (streamflow) in cubic feet per second. All rivers with average discharge more than 15,000 cubic feet per second are listed.
The Wallkill flows north over the New York State line and drains into the Hudson River. The third small river is the Pequest River which begins in Andover Township and flows south to Great Meadows and then flows east to Belvidere and drains into the Delaware River.
The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is the longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock, New York , the river flows for 282 miles (454 km) along the borders of New York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and Delaware , before ...
The Pequest Fill is a three-mile (4.8 km) railroad embankment in northwestern New Jersey built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad as part of the Lackawanna Cut-Off. At its completion in 1911, it was touted as the largest fill and the highest embankment ever built for a railroad.
The Army Corps of Engineers abruptly began releasing large flows on Friday, sending water streaming from Terminus Dam into the Kaweah River near Visalia and from Schafer Dam into the Tule River ...
The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [ 1 ] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.