Webhannet River
Template:Short description Template:Use American English
The Webhannet River is an Script error: No such module "convert".[1] river whose Script error: No such module "convert". watershed is contained entirely within the town of Wells, Maine.[2]
The river has five tributaries, including three with official names: Pope’s Creek, Depot Brook, and Blacksmith Brook. Draining a sandy outwash plain left by the last glacier, they run parallel to the southern Maine coastline behind the heavily developed barrier beaches of Wells and Drakes Island. The river flows into Wells Harbor, then empties between a pair of jetties into the Gulf of Maine.[2]
The Webhannet watershed includes Script error: No such module "convert". of land under conservation, including Script error: No such module "convert". of estuary salt marsh and uplands protected by the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.[2]
Jetties
In 1961-62, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built two rubble-mound jetties to protect the Script error: No such module "convert". channel to Wells Harbor. The north jetty was Script error: No such module "convert". long, the south one Script error: No such module "convert"., and extended roughly from the inner harbor to just past the beaches. A 1-ft-thick bedding layer and core of 3-in. to Script error: No such module "convert". stone was covered with a double layer of stones weighing a minimum of two tons on the landward section and three tons on the seaward sections, for a total of 20,000 tons of stone. The cost for placing the stone was $95,600.[3]
In 1962-63, the north jetty was extended Script error: No such module "convert". seaward at a cost of $29,300.[3]
In 1965, the north and south jetties were extended seaward 1,225 and Script error: No such module "convert"., respectively. The work required a total of 119,000 tons of stone and cost $594,600 ($Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". todayTemplate:Inflation-fn).[3]
The extensions are parallel to one another, spaced Script error: No such module "convert". apart, and terminate at a depth of eight feet below the low-water mark. Their height above low water ranges from Script error: No such module "convert". on their seaward ends to Script error: No such module "convert". (north jetty) and Script error: No such module "convert". (south jetty) at their landward ends. Their flat crowns are Script error: No such module "convert". wide at the seaward end and Script error: No such module "convert". wide at the landward end.[3]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve
- Map of Webhannet River estuary
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers description and drawing of Wells Harbor and its jetties, January 1989, pp. 31-32
Template:Gulf of Maine drainage estuaries Template:Rivers of Maine
Template:Authority control Script error: No such module "Coordinates".