FOSL comment: This letter was copied recently from FERC elibrary files.
FOSL has several submissions to FERC about this degradation which is a violation
of the Clean Water Act.
Comment of James O'Connor in Docket(s)/Project(s) P-2984-066
Submission Date: 5/8/2008
Re;
Eel Weir Hydro Project, FERC No. p-2984, correspondence with FERC.
Please note any and all relating to this project
IRREVERSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE
SEBAGO LAKE LEVEL
We have had a tremendous amount of erosion on the Crooked River in NAPLES and
CASCO MAINE as a result of high water in the lake at the wrong times over the last decade. The crooked river can’t handle the spring runoff if the lake is at full
pond nor can it during a big rain event while at full pond. This is What happens
during a flood on the very long crooked river - irreversible environmental damage,
not only erosion but, uprooted trees, dead beavers, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, muskrats, nesting birds, frogs and waterfowl. Oxbows are 'cleaned out" of spring hatch. The salmon won’t run because the smelt won’t run. Trout won’t come
into turbid water (silt). Another important and hazardous impact to the environment is- pollutants washed down the river from the flood. Gas cans, oil, trash, any thing left on the ground gets into the water supply including raw sewage.
The crooked river is the largest tributary of Sebago Lake.
Jim O'Connor
1 comment:
I don't understand, with the importance of the Crooked River, how the EPA allowed the capsized motorboat to sit in that river for about a year. It may still be there, maybe it sank and was never removed. That river is now considered #4 in the WORLD, in importance to the spawning and such that takes place. How does one get such an important river actually Protected by the Protection Agency?!
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