Jemseg River

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The Jemseg River is a short river in the Canadian province of New Brunswick which drains Grand Lake into the Saint John River.

With an approximately 5 kilometre meander length, the river is fairly slow flowing, passing through a savannah-type of environment, aided by the Grand Lake Meadows. The river is relatively deep and its main channel hosted regular tug-barge traffic until the late 1990s; this being the last commercial shipping that was taking place on the Saint John River system.

The river begins at the southern end of Grand Lake at the community of Jemseg, where it is bridged by Highway 2, the Trans-Canada Highway, using the new Jemseg River High Level Crossing twin bridges which opened in October, 2002. These supplanted the original 1960s-era Jemseg River Bridge, which carried the TCH on its original alignment and which is now renumbered to Highway 105.

The river drains into the Saint John River at the community of Lower Jemseg, opposite the village of Gagetown.