meramec river starts and ends at headwaters near salem.
meramec river starts and ends at headwaters near salem.
where does the meramec river start and end?
headwaters near salem
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the meramec river (), sometimes spelled maramec river is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the u.s. state of missouri, draining while wandering from headwaters near salem to where it empties into the mississippi river near st. louis at arnold and oakville. the meramec watershed covers
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the free-flowing meramec river and several of its tributaries narrowly avoided being impounded by several dams proposed by the corps of engineers. the united states congress authorized several large dams in the upper mississippi and meramec river basins in 1938 following severe flooding in 1927 and 1937. world war ii intervened, and plans were delayed and altered, but the meramec basin project finally started moving forward in the 1960s. the main dam was to be at sullivan, missouri, at meramec state park, with several additional dams upstream. these plans ran into opposition from the growing environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as from recreational users of the free-flowing meramec. the failure of the teton dam in 1976 increased the public's doubt about the wisdom of the project.
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