Sebasticook River

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The Sebasticook River is a left tributary of the Kennebec River in the U.S. state of Maine.

River

The Sebasticook River is the outflow of the Great Moose Lake north of Hartland. In Hartland, the Morgan Dam is located along the river. The Sebasticook continues to flow in a south-southeast direction to Pittsfield. Shortly thereafter, the East Branch Sebasticook River joins from the north on the Sebasticook River. Then the river towards the south-southeast turns. He passed the places Burnham, Clinton and Benton. The Maine State Route 100 follows the river. Finally, the Sebasticook River Winslow, where it flows into the Kennebec River reached. The Sebasticook River has a length of 66 km. Its catchment area covers 2522 km ².

Fauna

The river system of the Sebasticook River was once an important spawning area of the chart Morone saxatilis Wolf bars, the kinds of herring Alosa sapidissima and Alosa pseudoharengus the genus Alosa and other migratory fish. As part of the restoration program in the catchment area of ​​the Kennebec River to the Fort Halifax Dam in Winslow was demolished in 2003 to make the higher-lying part of the river accessible again for migratory fish.

Hydropower plants

At the Sebasticook River there are several hydropower plants:

• Hartland, the Morgan Dam
• 2 plants in Pittsfield
• Burnham, Burnham above, 1.7 MW with 3 units
• Benton Falls in Benton, 4.2 MW with 2 units
• Fort Halifax in Winslow, shut down