page_title: Webhannet River
hierarchical_section_title: Webhannet River
caption_attribution_description: English: Bridge over the Webhannet River, Wells Beach, Maine
context_page_description: The Webhannet River is an 8.3-mile-long river whose 8,963-acre watershed is contained entirely within the town of Wells, Maine.
  The river has five tributaries, including three with official names: Pope’s Creek, Depot Brook, and Blacksmith Brook. Draining a sandy outwash plain left by the last glacier, they run parallel to the southern Maine coastline behind the heavily developed barrier beaches of Wells and Drakes Island. The river flows into Wells Harbor, then empties between a pair of jetties into the Gulf of Maine.
  The Webhannet watershed includes 1,510 acres of land under conservation, including 1,167 acres of estuary salt marsh and uplands protected by the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.
context_section_description: The Webhannet River is an 8.3-mile-long (13.4 km) river whose 8,963-acre (36.27 km²) watershed is contained entirely within the town of Wells, Maine.
  The river has five tributaries, including three with official names: Pope’s Creek, Depot Brook, and Blacksmith Brook. Draining a sandy outwash plain left by the last glacier, they run parallel to the southern Maine coastline behind the heavily developed barrier beaches of Wells and Drakes Island. The river flows into Wells Harbor, then empties between a pair of jetties into the Gulf of Maine.
  The Webhannet watershed includes 1,510 acres (6.1 km²) of land under conservation, including 1,167 acres (4.72 km²) of estuary salt marsh and uplands protected by the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge.
caption: Bridge over the Webhannet River in 1920
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