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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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.)