The Three Mile River or Threemile River is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...

in Bristol County, Massachusetts. It is formed by the junction of the Rumford and Wading rivers in the town of

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. 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,

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and Dighton, where it joins the Taunton River. 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 (F ...

(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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