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thumb|Freshet on Ouareau River in Rawdon, Quebec|Rawdon, [[Quebec, Canada]] thumb|An example of usage of the term "freshet" is shown in the text on a historic marker at Durgin Bridge near Sandwich, New Hampshire.

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thumb|Freshet on Ouareau River in Rawdon, Quebec|Rawdon, [[Quebec, Canada]] thumb|An example of usage of the term "freshet" is shown in the text on a historic marker at Durgin Bridge near Sandwich, New Hampshire.

A freshet is a snowmelt, an annual high water event on rivers resulting from snow and river ice melting.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “freshet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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