In response to local interest, several presentations have been scheduled to provide information about projects concerning the Bristol Dam and its fishway. These efforts are to improve alewife passage around the dam while still maintaining upstream water levels, swimming opportunities, and firefighting capacities.
The report to be discussed from Wright-Pierce Engineers was developed by the Bristol Dam Advisory Committee over the past 15 months and was presented to the public at a meeting at Bristol Consolidated School on January 30.
The presentations announced here are to give folks who were not able to attend the January meeting a chance to learn more about the project and ask questions they may have.
There will also be information about the ecology and history of the Bristol Dam, the Pemaquid River, and the Pemaquid Watershed, and environmental impacts related to removing or maintaining the dam.
Concerned citizens of Bristol have organized these presentations and Phil Averill will be on hand to answer questions. Averill served on the Bristol Dam Advisory Committee, is a former president of the Pemaquid Watershed Association and former member of the Bristol Fish Committee.
When available, other members who served on the Bristol Dam Advisory Committee will join Averill for the presentations.
Presentations are free and open to the public and will take place on the following dates: Thursday, March 1 at noon at the Bristol Library; and Thursday, March 8 at the United Methodist Church in New Harbor (Bristol) at 2 p.m. and a second one that same day and location, at 7 p.m.
For more information call 677-3703.
