The Connetquot River (also known as Great River) is a river in
Islip
Islip may refer to:
Places England
* Islip, Northamptonshire
*Islip, Oxfordshire
United States
*Islip, New York, a town in Suffolk County
** Islip (hamlet), New York, located in the above town
**Central Islip, New York, a hamlet and census-d ...
,
New York. It is one of the
four longest rivers on
Long Island and is recognized by the state as a Wild, Scenic and Recreational River. It is particularly known for its brook, brown and rainbow
trout
Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', '' Salmo'' and '' Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salm ...
fly fishing.
Description
The upper reaches of the river including its headwaters are totally in the
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
Connetquot River State Park Preserve is a state park and conservation area in the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York in the United States. The park contains the Long Island Environmental Interpretive Center as well as the Southside Sp ...
or Lakeland County Park before it becomes an
estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environm ...
. It starts just south of the
Long Island Expressway
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* Long, characteristic of something of great duration
* Long, characteristic of something of great length
* Longitude (abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate
* Longa (music), note value in early music men ...
from springs in the Lakeland County Park in
Islandia where it is called Connetquot Brook. The estuary portion south of
Sunrise Highway
New York State Route 27 (NY 27) is a long state highway that runs east–west from Interstate 278 (I-278) in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Montauk Point State Park on Long Island, New York. Its two most prominent com ...
at
Oakdale is officially called the Connetquot River although in popular usage both the brook and river share the same name.
The name comes from the
Secatogue
Mohegan-Pequot (also known as Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk, Secatogue, and Shinnecock-Poosepatuck; dialects in New England included Mohegan, Pequot, and Niantic; and on Long Island, Montaukett and Shinnecock) is an Algonquian language formerly spok ...
tribe name for "Great River"
and is different from the
Carmans River
The Carmans River is a long river in Brookhaven, New York in Suffolk County on Long Island.
It is one of the four largest rivers on Long Island and is similar to other Long Island rivers in that is totally groundwater generated (e.g., no lak ...
on Long Island which at one time was called the Connecticut River.
The entire Connetquot River watershed habitat represents the largest undeveloped contiguous area within Suffolk County that covers an entire river watershed. The river is generated entirely from
groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. About 30 percent of all readily available freshwater in the world is groundwater. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated ...
springs,
and like all other rivers on Long Island, does not arise from a lake.
List of crossings of the Connetquot River
See also
*
Mill River – Another north-south river on Long Island, located further west in
Nassau County.
References
External links
New York State Parks: Connetquot River State Park Preserve
Rivers of Suffolk County, New York
Rivers of New York (state)
Islip (town), New York
Smithtown, New York
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