Well it’s literally the last Atlantic Salmon run in the entire country.

It’s an extremely nuanced problem. We could remove the dam, but the damage upstream has already been done. It’s unclear to me at least if removing it would cause water level issues between east mill and Milford. Or a myriad of other things Plus you’d need to replace the power with something else. It would probably be oil or nat gas. Warming will fuck the salmon anyways through the warming gulf.

The dam is only 8MW, so it would take a handful of wind turbines to produce the same wattage. However the life of wind turbines is much shorter than a dam, and it remains to be seen what developers will do when the turbines reach the end of their life. They may just abandon them.

It comes back to it’s probably best to just leave the dam where it is, and figure out how to let the fish pass through.