Peconic River

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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Peconic River is a river within Suffolk County on Long Island, New York.[1] The river is located in the eastern end of Long Island. The Peconic River drains an area between the Harbor Hill Moraine and flows into Flanders Bay, which in turn connects to Peconic Bay east of Riverhead.

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Peconic River
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The Peconic River near its mouth in Riverhead, New York

The river originates in bogs and wetlands in central Long Island near the Brookhaven National Laboratory and flows eastward to the Peconic Bay. It is the longest river on Long Island and is almost entirely within the Central Long Island Pine Barrens publicly protected area, which was set up in 1993 to protect its relative wilderness standing.

It is fresh water until about the center of Riverhead where it becomes an estuary.

The river is slow-moving, making it ideal for canoeing and kayaking.

It forms the border between Brookhaven and Riverhead towns as well as the border between Riverhead and Southampton.

List of crossings of the Peconic River

Crossings Carries Location Coordinates
Unnamed road bridge Schultz Road
(former Suffolk CR 25)
South Manor and Calverton
Unnamed road bridge David Terry Street Manorville and Calverton '
Unnamed road bridge Connecticut Avenue
Unnamed railroad bridge Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road Calverton
Unnamed road bridge Edwards Avenue
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Peconic Lake Dam Dam Road
(Between South River
and Forge Roads)
Unnamed road bridge Unnamed dead end street to
LIPA Sub-station from NY 25
Riverside and Riverhead
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Unnamed road bridge Peconic Avenue
(former NY 24-113 overlap)
Unnamed road bridge Script error: No such module "Jct". Flanders and Riverhead

See also

References

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