page_title: Aspetuck River
section_title: Water quality
hierarchical_section_title: Aspetuck River / Water quality
caption_attribution_description: English: Grist Mill in Easton, CT.
context_page_description: The Aspetuck River is a 17.0-mile-long river in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The river rises in the hills located in Huntington State Park in Bethel, with a watershed of approximately 430 acres. The river flows generally southerly through Redding, Connecticut to the Aspetuck Reservoir, the Hemlock Reservoir in Easton and Fairfield and finally into the Saugatuck River in Westport, Connecticut and then into the Long Island Sound. It flows through the village of Aspetuck at an average depth of 2.5 feet. The word Aspetuck can be translated as "river originating at the high place" in an Algonquian language.
context_section_description: The Aspetuck is one of the cleanest rivers in the state, with an AA rating.
caption: The Grist Mill is located on Old Redding Rd, in Aspetuck, CT.
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