Kennebec River Data
Length – 230 miles
Drainage Area – 5,870 square miles (above Merrymeeting Bay)
Discharge at Merrymeeting Bay – 5,893 million gallons/day (avg.)
Rivers, Lakes, and Streams in the Kennebec Watershed
- Alder Stream
- Annabessacook Lake
- Attean Pond
- Austin Pond
- Austin Stream
- Bagadasset River
- Belgrade Stream
- Black Brook
- Black Stream
- Bog Stream
- Brassua Lake
- Brassua Stream
- Bunny Brook
- Carrabasset River
- Carrabasset Stream
- Chain Lakes
- Chase Stream
- China Lake
- Churchill Stream
- Cobbosseecontee Lake
- Cold Stream
- Craigin Stream
- Dead River
- E Br Sebasticook River
- East Pond
- Eastern River
- Emeden Pond Enchanted Stream
- Fall Brook
- First Roach Pond
- Flagstaff Lake
- Fifteen Mile Stream
- Fillibrown Brook
- Fish Brook
- Gillman Pond
- Great Moose Lake
- Great Pond
- Halfmoon Stream
- Halfway Brook
- Heald Stream
- Higgins Brook
- Indian Pond
- Indian Stream
- Kennebec River
- Kibby Stream
- King And Bartlett Lake
- Lake Wassookeag
- Lemon Stream
- Lilly Bay Brook
- Little Indian Stream
- Little Spencer Stream
- Long Pond
- Lucky Brook
- Lutton Brook
- Maranacook Lake
- Martin Stream
- Messalonskee Lake
- Mill Stream
- Misery Stream
- Moose River
- Moosehead Lake
- Moxie Pond
- Muddy Brook
- Nash Stream
- North Pond
- Orbeton Stream
- Outlet Stream
- Pierce Pond
- Pleasant Lake
- Pleasant Pond
- Pleasant Pond Stream
- Roach River
- Sandy River
- Sandy Stream
- Sebasticook Lake
- Sebasticook River
- S B Alder Stream
- Salmon Stream
- Socatean Stream
- Spencer Lake
- Spencer Stream
- Spring Lk
- Squaw Brook
- Statton Brook
- Stony Brook
- Temple Stream
- Threemile Pond
- Tim Brook
- Tomhegan Stream
- Togus Pond
- Torsey Lake
- Unity Pond
- Webber Pond
- Wesserunsett Lake
- Wesserunsett Stream
- Whipple Pond
- Wilson Pond
- Wilson Stream
- Wing Brook
- Wood Pond
- Worromontogus Stream
Originating from Moosehead Lake and the Moose River, the Kennebec flows gently for much of its course.
The river had perhaps the most magnificent runs of anadromous fish on Maine’s coast. Atlantic salmon, alewives, shad, sturgeon and striped bass all swarmed far upstream to spawning grounds. The fish were decimated, however, by dams and pollution.
With the removal of Edwards Dam in July 1999, however, and more stringent discharge controls, the Kennebec is recovering.
Messalonskee Stream flows through one of the most populous sections of Maine. Its banks pass a remarkable variety of landscapes, from residential homes, pastures and fields, a deep and narrow gorge, the neighborhoods of Waterville and a remarkably scenic junction with the Kennebec at a long rapids called Petty’s Rips.
Local Organizations – Kennebec Watersheds
Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance/Kennebec Highlands Project
P.O. Box 250
Belgrade Lakes, ME 04918
207-397-5945
brca@gwi.net
www.belgradelakes.org
China Region Lakes Alliance
571 Lakeview Dr.
China, Maine 04358
207-445-5021
lakesalliance@yahoo.com
Friends of the Cobbossee Watershed
PO Box 5003
Augusta, ME 04332-5003
207-621-4100
mail@watershedfriends.com
http://www.watershedfriends.com
Friends of the Kennebec Salmon
P.O. Box 2473
Augusta, ME 04338
fks@gwi.net
home.gwi.net/~fks/ksalmon.html
Friends of Merrymeeting Bay
P.O. Box 233
Richmond, Maine 04357
207-666-3372
fomb@gwi.net
www.friendsofmerrymeetingbay.org
Friends of Messalonskee Watershed
P.O. Box 532
Oakland, ME 04963
friendsofmessalonskee@hotmail.com
http://www.friendsofmessalonskee.com
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust
P.O. Box 1128
Bath, ME 04530
207-442-8400
info@kennebecestuary.org
www.kennebecestuary.org
Sebasticook Regional Land Trust
P.O. Box 184
Unity, ME 04988
207-948-3766
www.sebasticookrlt.org