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〕 | source_elevation = | source_elevation_imperial = | source_elevation_note = | source_length = | source_length_imperial = | source1_name = | source_meet = | mouth_name = Delaware Bay | mouth_location = Bowers | mouth_location_note = | mouth_country = | mouth_region = | mouth_country1 = | mouth_elevation = | mouth_elevation_imperial = 3 | mouth_elevation_note =〔 | mouth_lat_d = 39 | mouth_lat_m = 03 | mouth_lat_s = 30 | mouth_lat_NS = N | mouth_long_d = 75 | mouth_long_m = 23 | mouth_long_s = 48 | mouth_long_EW = W | mouth_coordinates_note =〔 | tributary_left = | tributary_left1 = | tributary_right = | tributary_right1 = | map = Delaware Locator Map.PNG | map_size = 280 | map_caption = Location of the mouth of the Murderkill River | map_locator = Delaware | map_first = }} The Murderkill River is a river flowing to Delaware Bay in central Delaware in the United States. It is approximately long〔 and drains an area of on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Murderkill flows for its entire length in southern Kent County. It rises just west of Felton and flows generally east-northeastwardly, through Killen Pond (site of Killens Pond State Park〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Killens Pond State Park website )〕) and Coursey Pond, under Carpenters Bridge, and past Frederica to Bowers, where it enters Delaware Bay about 0.5 miles (1 km) south of the mouth of the St. Jones River.〔DeLorme (2004). ''Maryland Delaware Atlas & Gazetteer''. p.52. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-279-X.〕 The Murderkill River is tidally influenced from its mouth upstream to just past Frederica,〔 and is considered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be navigable for the lower 10 miles (16 km) of its course. According to 2002 data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, 55% of the area of the Murderkill River's watershed is occupied by agricultural uses; 17% is forested; 14% is urban; 9% is wetland; and 2% is water.〔 The river has suffered a persistent pollution from eutrophication and organic waste in agricultural runoff. Its estuary is considered to have abnormally low rates of dissolved oxygen. ==Origin of name== One description of the river's naming was recorded in 1945 by George R. Stewart, but is now considered to be an apocryphal folk tale: Dick Carter, Chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission, states that the name of Murderkill River is taken from the original Dutch for Mother River. Mother is "moeder" in Dutch, and river is "kill." Later, under British rule, the word "River" was added to the waterway's name, effectively making it "mother river river."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Murderkill River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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