Talk:Winooski River

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Please feel free to reincorporate into the article with appropriate references. Doniago (talk) 15:26, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

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Celebrate the Winooski River!, an eclectic, grass-roots, artistic extravaganza and educational experience was launched in 1997 by a consortium of several organizations, poets and artists. The annual event ebbs and flows each year; but usually contains a river cleanup, festival, music, and education projects that calls attention to the area’s rivers and engages the community in active participation in their enhancement. Tons of tires and junk pulled from the Winooski River during community and school clean ups is in turn made into fanciful sculptures that are displayed in Montpelier, and highlighted in the culminating parade. The name Winooski is derived from the Abenaki word meaning "wild onions." The river was called the Onion River for a period during the 19th century. Indeed, the City of Winooski is colloquially known as the "Onion City."

Dams

I understand there were three flood-control dams built on the river in the 1930s: The Wrightsville Dam, East Barre Dam, and Waterbury Dam. Should those be incorporated into the text of this article in some way? See also The Winooski project. --MelanieN (talk) 00:44, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes. Even if they are history. Try to follow suggested outline in WikiProject Rivers, which I am adding above. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 17:38, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

A couple things:

First, the Winooski rises considerably before Montpelier. Reading this article, one get the impression that the Winooski rises around Montpelier, fed by a bunch of smaller rivers. It IS fed by numerous rivers and streams, but the "Winooski" river can be followed over 20 miles upstream to the town I grew up in, Cabot, Vermont. Cabot is where the Winooksi originates: http://winooskiriver.org/winooski-watershed.php. That means that the only town named is leaving 20 miles out of the 90 total. This article is like suggesting that the Mississippi originates somewhere around the 46th Parallel, and "drains the area further North". Yes, it does, but the river itself can be traced much further North itself, although it obviously gets smaller as it goes.

Second, why must one be "intrepid" to swim in the Winooksi? Not only is that not very encyclopedic tone, but it's not even accurate. Many people swim in the Winooski; it's not a particularly fast or dangerous river. Most of the summer, the majority of it is too shallow to even kayak in, in areas. Rock and sand bars. But there are hundreds of nice little swimming holes here and there. I grew up swimming in the Winooski, where it ran 1/2 mile from my house. Is this suggesting that all rivers in Vermont must inherently be freezing cold year-round because it's such a Northern state? Sorry, but that's not true. Most Vermont rivers, including the Winooski, are more than warm enough for swimming by July or earlier. .45Colt 03:42, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your efforts to improve the article. I've formatted your links as citations; you're welcome to improve upon them. We generally do not directly insert external links into the body of an article. Cheers! DonIago (talk) 13:41, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Is anyone watching this article?

Three of seven references (1,2 and 6) are 404 dead links, and even though it has been pointed out just above here, the lead is still misleadingly worded in terms of being rather dismissive of the Winooski’s first twenty miles of flow. Terribly uninformative article! 2601:18C:4303:4550:B40C:BF45:C5A6:8728 (talk) 17:25, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Please feel free to update the article as needed. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Jmertel23 (talk) 02:17, 13 July 2023 (UTC)