Connecticut Water Trails Association
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Connecticut Water Trails Program
Watersheds -
Farmington River Watershed
Stretching across 33 towns and 609 square miles, the Farmington River Watershed is an essential resource for life in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The watershed supports abundant recreational opportunities, unique fish, wildlife, and plant habitats, hydropower generation, and is the first River in Connecticut to have a section federally designated as Wild & Scenic. The Watershed’s reservoirs and aquifers provide clean water to about 1 million people (1/3rd of Connecticut’s entire population).The Farmington River Watershed is an important Atlantic salmon restoration habitat. Annually over one million juvenile salmon, called salmon fry, are stocked in the watershed. Farmington River is 81 miles long from headwaters to mouth. There are 409 dams in the Connecticut Portion of the Farmington River Watershed.
Farmington River Watershed Association
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