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Committee approves dam removal replanting plan despite ownership uncertainty for drained lakebed
Summary
The WIC committee approved a phased replanting plan for a dam-removal project that will convert a 40-acre pond into roughly 10 acres of standing water and about 30 acres of planting over several seasons. The Nature Conservancy and staff flagged a legal complication: the newly exposed lakebed may be of 'unknown ownership.'
The WIC committee approved a phased replanting plan tied to a planned dam removal that will reduce a 40-acre impoundment to about 10 acres of standing water and require roughly 30 acres of planting over multiple seasons.
Jordan Duffy, the project engineer, outlined a multi‑phase approach: immediate sediment-removal and edge planting where possible, live-staking and seeding in exposed fringes, installation of willow fascines to stabilize future channels, and later phases to install…
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