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Climate change in Maine encompasses the effects of climate change, attributed to man-made increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxides, in the U.S. state of Maine. The United States Environmental Protection Agency reports that Maine has warmed roughly three degrees F since 1900. [1] Sea level in Maine has risen eight ...
The Roach River is a river in Piscataquis County, Maine. From the outlet of Third Roach Pond ( 45°39′02″N 69°14′29″W) in Shawtown (Maine Township A, Range 12, WELS), the river runs 19.1 miles (30.7 km) west, through a chain of ponds. [1] The Flow sequence through the ponds is from the Fourth Roach Pond through the Third Roach Pond ...
The largest great pond in Maine named Great Pond is located in Kennebec County and is part of the Kennebec River watershed. There are several other, smaller ponds named Great Pond in Maine and New England . Great Pond receives water from several sources. Salmon Lake flows into the east side of Great Pond via a short channel near the village of ...
Long Lake [1] is an eleven-mile (18 km) lake between the towns of Naples, Maine, Bridgton, Maine and Harrison, Maine. It is connected to Brandy Pond through the Chute River. Long Lake was created by receding glaciers, and has many coves and rocks. Canal boats from Portland harbor reached Long Lake through the Cumberland and Oxford Canal ...
Lovewell Pond. / 44.00583°N 70.93194°W / 44.00583; -70.93194. Lovewell Pond is a sizable body of water located in southeastern Fryeburg, Maine. It has a moderately developed shoreline with approximately 75-80 buildings, not including approximately 35 others with access rights to the pond's shoreline. [1]
The total area of all standing surface waters in the region is more than 238,000 acres (960 km 2) – 24% of the total area of lakes and ponds in Maine. Climate. There is a weather station in the unincorporated namesake community of Moosehead on the middle part of the western lakeshore. The area has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb ...
The Gulf of Maine is a roughly rectangular depression with a surface area of around 36,000 square miles (93,000 km 2 ), enclosed to the west and north by the North American mainland and communicating with the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. The region's glaciation by the Laurentide Ice Sheet stripped sedimentary soil away from the coastline ...
9,111 cu ft/s (258.0 m 3 /s) at its entrance to Merrymeeting Bay. The course of the Kennebec River. The Kennebec River ( Abenaki: Kinəpékʷihtəkʷ) is a 170-mile-long (270 km) [1] river within the U.S. state of Maine. It rises in Moosehead Lake in west-central Maine. The East and West Outlets join at Indian Pond and the river flows southward.