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The Spicket River is a 17.7 mile long (28.5 km)[1] river located in New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the United States.
 
It is a tributary of the Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an earlier spelling that is sometimes still used), part of the Gulf of Maine and Merrimack River watershed.


The Spicket River begins at the outlet of Island Pond in Derry, New Hampshire, and flows south into Salem, New Hampshire, passing through the Arlington Mill Reservoir.

Island Pond is a 532-acre water body located in Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire, United States, in the towns of Derry, Hampstead and Atkinson.
 
Arlington Mill Reservoir is a 320-acre impoundment located in Rockingham County in southern New Hampshire.

The river continues through Salem, encountering copious suburban development, and enters the city of Methuen, Massachusetts, where it drops nearly 100 feet over a series of dams on its way to the Merrimack River in Lawrence.

==THE WATER-POWER OF THE STREAMS OF EASTERN NEW ENGLAND.==
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By GEORGE F. SWAIN, S. В., Assistant Professor of Oivil Engineering in the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, Special Agent October 12, 1882

THE SPICKET RIVER. 
This stream empties into the- Merrimack at Lawrence, rising in Rockingbam county, New Hampshire, and : 
flowing south and southeast into Massachusetts, its length in a straight line being about 15 miles and its drainage 
area 79 square miles, of which 10 are in Massachusetts. 
It is not a very good stream for power, its flow being very variable. 
Several small ponds near the headwaters are dammed and used to regulate the flow, viz : Policy pond, 
in New Hampshire, covering about 450 acres, and with a range of 8 feet ; 
Island pond, covering about 480 acres, and other smaller ones. 
In Lawrence there are three mills on the stream, the lowest with a fall of 15 feet, the next with 12 feet, and the third, the Arlington worsted-mill, with 12 feet. 
The power at the last is stated at 140 horse-power during part of the year. 
A short distance above, a fall of 39 feet is used, at the Methuen Company's cotton-mill, with 300 horse-power during eight months. 
In very dry seasons the flow of the stream is very small, and the mills depend upon steam.