Laura Rose Day and an associate provided an update on the Penobscot River Restoration Project at the April 20th meeting of the Board of Selectmen. The Project is currently working on obtaining Federal Permits to remove the Great Works Dam, the Howland Dam, and the Veazie Dam. The permits are expected to be awarded and then local permits will be sought.
The plan is to remove the Great Works Dam first. The Veazie Dam is a hydro dam and will be kept in operation until 2012-2013. There is another group to which all the remaining dams have been sold and they will/have been granted authority to generate increased hydro-generating power to off-set that which will be lost once the Veazie Dam is taken down.
The purpose of removing the dams in to increase the natural flow and reproduction of fish that once were natural to the area and have been negatively impacted by the dams.
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