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It rises in extreme western Massachusetts in the Berkshire Mountains near the city of Pittsfield. It flows southward through western Massachusetts through the Berkshires and into western Connecticut.It empties into Long Island Sound in a fjord near the town of Stratford.

It receives the Naugatuck River at Derby, Connecticut. It receives the Still River south of New Milford, Connecticut. The river is impounded in several places in Connecticut for hydroelectricity.

Until 1977 the river received PCBPCB may refer to: # Brazilian Communist Party (in Portuguese, Partido Comunista Brasileiro) # Pakistan Cricket Board # PCBoard, a bulletin board system software # Polychlorinated biphenyl # Power circuit breaker (hardware) # Power control box (hardware) # pollution from the General ElectricGeneral Electric Company or GE is a multinational technology and services company, one of the world's largest corporations. While it still uses its full name for legal purposes, it prefers to use the abbreviation GE in the names of its component businesse plant at Pittsfield. Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, the river continues to be contaminated by PCPS.

1 See also

• List of Connecticut riversThis is a partial list of the rivers in the state of Connecticut in the United States. Blackwell River Connecticut River Coginchaug River Farmington River Hockanum River Housatonic River Mill River Moosup River Natchaug River Naugatuck River Norwalk River
• List of Massachusetts riversThis is a list of rivers in the U. state of Massachusetts Acushnet River Agawam River Assabet River Assonet River Barrington River Bungay River Canoe River Charles River Chicopee River Clam River Concord River Connecticut River Deerfield River Fort River

2 External link

• Housatonic River Restoration