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Travel here is typically done by raft or kayak during the short river-running season between March 1 and May 15. A visitor permit is required between these dates and group size is limited to 15 people. White-water rafting the Salt River Canyon is fairly popular, with 27 sets of rapids and numerous side creeks to explore. [3]
The Salt River bed in the Phoenix metropolitan area is often either dry or flowing to a trickle, with the river's water being entirely diverted to agricultural and other uses upriver. Since Tempe Town Lake uses artificial structures and the natural riverbed to form the lake, the inflatable dams confining the lake must be lowered in periods of ...
The Salt River is formed by the confluence of the White River and the Black River in the White Mountains of eastern Gila County. The White and Black rivers, and other tributaries of the upper Salt River, drain the region between the Mogollon Rim in the north and the Natanes Mountains and Natanes Plateau to the east and south.
The U.S. Forest Service finalized a regulatory update for portions of Upper Chattooga Wild and Scenic River for access in North and South Carolina.
At the end of the river's journey, near Boston, the Beech Fork flows into the Rolling Fork of the Salt River. [5] The Beech Fork at Bardstown has a mean annual discharge of 964 cubic feet per second. [6] The Beech Fork is a winding river that can be used for whitewater rafting, kayaking and canoeing. Most of the river is Class I and suitable ...
Estate Mount Victory, near Frederiksted on Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a sugar plantations listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included five contributing sites on 7 acres (2.8 ha).
The Upper Ocoee, the 3.5 mi (5.6 km) section of the river between Dam #3 and its powerhouse, is normally dewatered except during flood control releases, usually during the winter and spring. Lake water is taken by tunnel and penstock, at the rate of 1,050 cu ft/s (30 m 3 /s), to the power house 300 feet (91 m ) lower than the lake surface.
The Salt River is a formerly navigable hanging channel of the Eel River which flowed about 9 miles (14 km) from near Fortuna and Waddington, California, to the estuary at the Pacific Ocean, until siltation from logging and agricultural practices essentially closed the channel. It was historically an important navigation route until the early ...