Spicket River Information
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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 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. | ||
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| + | ==THE WATER-POWER OF THE STREAMS OF EASTERN NEW ENGLAND.== | ||
| + | [http://books.google.com/books?id=veYqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=spicket+river&source=web&ots=TLMq020s9e&sig=qvh9Q1jn-Fb4m95kOnGk60kSpoo&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA39,M1 Water Power of Eastern Massachusetts 1880] | ||
| + | By GEORGE F. SWAIN, S. В., Assistant Professor of Oivil Engineering in the Massachusetts Institute | ||
| + | of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, Special Agent October 12, 1882 | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
