The Dam is coming down.

[Sagittarius62]

My photos from the travels of the Berkley cap showed me posing in front of an old hydro dam in my home town. If anyone is interested, here is a short story on the project from our local NPR station.
http://www.northcountrypublicradio.o...ews080310c.m3u This will play in Windows Media, and other media players. Lake Sturgeon? What weight rod for those dinosaurs do you think?

[Joe Valencic]

Good story. Sounds like progress is moving along.

[Sagittarius62]

Good story. Sounds like progress is moving along.

You bet. It only took 5 years. This will push the first barrier other than a few low natural falls about 12 miles up river. I spoke to the Tim Damon, one of the folks in the piece about 4 years ago about it. He is not an engineer or biologist, but he has been a long time advocate for fisheries, and has worked with the power companies on behalf of TU and the state on several issues. He told me that removing the impoundment will actually push the coldwater/warmwater transition zone downstream. I have to brag a bit on my sister, who is the Town Supervisor. She has been ramrodding this thing for 5 years, getting funding, convincing the owner of the dam to sell it to the town, convincing the town board to buy a couple abandoned riverfront properties, getting some bank side brownfields cleaned up, and tons of the other details and obstacles involved.

[Steve Molcsan]

I just could not resist:


Please allow me to give you some more Dam Good Progress,

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/blog.php?b=64




Steve Molcsan