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The Meramec River flowing through Castlewood State Park near St. Louis Flooding. As a free-flowing river with no flood control dams, the Meramec is subject to flooding. In addition to a flood in December 1982, there was major flooding December 2015 and in May 2017.
The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport.
December 6, 1991. Meramec State Park is a public recreation area located near Sullivan, Missouri, about 60 miles from St. Louis, along the Meramec River. [4] The park has diverse ecosystems such as hardwood forests and glades. There are over 40 caves located throughout the park, the bedrock is dolomite.
Features: River Scene Trail features bluffside views of the Meramec River Valley below, and introduces the remnant of an early 20th-century resort and railway access. Sandstone Trail
The U.S. Congress had approved the building of a dam near Pacific, Missouri in 1938 to help control the flooding of the Meramec River, which had devastated the lower river basin in 1915 and 1944. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed relocating the dam upstream at Meramec State Park in 1943. Riley had spoken in favor of the dam in 1949 ...
Route 66 State Park. / 38.50639°N 90.59028°W / 38.50639; -90.59028. Route 66 State Park is a public recreation area located on the Meramec River at the site of the former town of Times Beach, Missouri. [5] The state park encompasses 419 acres (170 ha) one mile (1.6 km) east of Eureka .
The Big River is a tributary of the Meramec River in east-central Missouri. The river rises in western Iron County near the summit of Johnson Mountain just north of Missouri Route 32 and approximately 3.5 miles southeast of the community of Enough. [2] It flows through Washington, Saint Francois, and Jefferson counties.
Maramec Spring. The spring discharges below an overhanging bluff of Gasconade Dolomite. / 37.95556°N 91.53250°W / 37.95556; -91.53250. Trout fishing is popular in the branch from Maramec Spring to the river. Maramec Spring is located on the Meramec River near St. James in the east-central Ozarks of Missouri.