Rivière du Moulin (Deschambault-Grondines)

The rivière du Moulin is a tributary of the northwest shore of the Saint-Laurent river, descending in the municipality of Deschambault-Grondines, in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Capitale-Nationale, in Quebec, in Canada.

[1] The surface of the Moulin river (except the rapids areas) is generally frozen from the beginning of December to the end of March; however, safe circulation on the ice is generally from late December to early March.

The water level of the river varies with the seasons and the precipitation; the spring flood occurs in March or April.

[2] In Description topographique... du Bas Canada..., published in 1815, the geographer Joseph Bouchette, wrote about the seigneury of Grondines, that it was very well watered by the Sainte-Anne river, the Batiscan, and a small river that falls in the St. Lawrence.

Still unnamed in 1815, this small river certainly received the name it now bears from the mill it once fed.

Rivière du Moulin in agricultural zone, Grondines (Sector)