The Three Mile River or Threemile River is a

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

Bristol County, Massachusetts Bristol County is a county in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 579,200. The shire town is Taunton. Some governmental functions are performed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, othe ...

. It is formed by the junction of the

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and Wading rivers in the town of Norton. It flows in a southeasterly direction for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
accessed April 1, 2011 through the towns of Norton,

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England. It is a market town and has a Minster (church), minster church. Its population in 2011 was 64,621. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century priory, monastic foundation, owned by the ...

and Dighton, where it joins the

Taunton River The Taunton River, historically also called the Taunton Great River, is a river in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States. It arises from the confluence of the Town River and Matfield River, in the town of Bridgewater. From there it ...

. On August 25, 2008, the Three Mile Watershed was designated an

Area of Critical Environmental Concern Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) is a conservation ecology program in the Western United States, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The ACEC program was conceived in the 1976 Federal Lands Policy and Management Act ( ...

(ACEC) by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). The ACEC designation imparts certain protections and restrictions within a designated area relating to new development and other human activities.ACEC Map, Mass DCR
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Taunton River Stewardship Program: The Wildlands Trust of Southeastern MassachusettsTaunton River Watershed Alliance
critical resource atlas
TauntonRiver.org Wild & Scenic River page
Greater Taunton Area Rivers of Bristol County, Massachusetts Taunton River watershed Taunton, Massachusetts Rivers of Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-river-stub fr:Comté de Bristol (Massachusetts)

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