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Farmington
River, CT
Great
Egg Harbor, NJ
Lamprey
River, NH
Lower
Delaware River, NJ/PA
Maurice
River, NJ
Musconetcong, NJ
Sudbury,
Assabet & Concord Rivers, MA
White
Clay Creek, DE/PA
Wekiva
River, FL
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Wild & Scenic Rivers
What are "Partnership" Wild & Scenic
Rivers?
In the 1960s, the country awoke to the fact
that our rivers were being dammed, dredged, diked, diverted and
degraded at an alarming rate. To lend balance to our history of
use and abuse of our waterways, Congress created the National Wild and Scenic Rivers
System in 1968. With this act it became the policy
of the United States that certain selected rivers of the Nation,
and their immediate environments, that possess outstandingly remarkable
scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural
or other similar values, should be preserved in free-flowing condition.
Rivers in this national system are protected for the benefit and
enjoyment of present and future generations.
As a subset of the greater National Wild
and Scenic Rivers System, the Partnership Wild and Scenic Rivers Program helps communities preserve and manage their own river-related resources
locally by bringing together State, county, and community managers
to preserve the outstanding and remarkable values for which the
rivers were set aside. The eight currently designated Partnership
National Wild and Scenic Rivers are located in the Northeast, though
Partnership designation is not limited to this region. These
rivers include the Farmington (Connecticut), Great Egg Harbor (New
Jersey), Maurice and tributaries (New Jersey), Lamprey (New Hampshire),
Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers (Massachusetts), and the recently
designated Lower Delaware (New Jersey/Pennsylvania), and White Clay
Creek (Delaware/Pennsylvania). (Click on the navigation bars to the left for links
to each Partnership Wild & Scenic River.)
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