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Town Brook Herring Run Restoration Project
Town Brook Herring Run Restoration Project
The goal of this project is to restore two critical fish passage areas that are nearly impassable to migrating fish. A dam at Billington Street will be removed to restore this portion of Town Brook to its former shape and depth, and the fish ladder at Newfield Street will be replaced with an Alaskan steep pass fish ladder.
Town Brook Herring Run Restoration Project
Town Brook Herring Run Restoration Project
Restoration
Jim Turek and Eric Hutchins of NOAA discuss the soil testing methods used at thePilgrim Trail restoration site, Plymouth County, MA.
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A local middle school student videotapes the soil testing procedures atthe future dam removal site as part of a documentary the school is producing.Later, students from the same middle school will act as volunteers to plantvegetation along the stream
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The soil at the dam removal site is tested for possible contaminants to preventleaching or erosion into the stream bed when removing the dam. The site is alsobeing searched for any significant archeological remains before the finaldigging begins. The
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The second in this series of images that show the process of testing at the damremoval site for contaminants and historical artifacts.
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A NOAA contract videographer, Tom Kane, documents the soil testing process andvideotapes the student's documentary production efforts.
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Two project partner representatives watch the progress as the soil is tested atthe dam removal site.
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At the sediment sampling site upstream of the Billington Street dam.dam removal site for a documentary the school is producing about the restorationwork.
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A technician is interviewed by a local middle school student working on adocumentary about the dam removal.prior to the dam removal.
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NOAA Restoration Center contractor, Tom Kane, documents the middle schoolvideography project while on site to record the initial restoration processes
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Local townspeople watch as the earthen dam's sediments are removed fortesting at the future restoration site.
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A bulldozer begins to unearth the dam for preliminary site testing purposes. Thetesting was conducted to determine if contaminants that could leach in to theriver were present and to assess the likelihood of uncovering any historicalartifacts.
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The first in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteerscollecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers andscientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams totheir spawning gr
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The second in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteerscollecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers andscientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams totheir spawning g
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The third in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteerscollecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers andscientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams totheir spawning gr
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The fourth in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteerscollecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers andscientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams totheir spawning g
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The fifth in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteerscollecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers andscientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams totheir spawning gr
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Pat Kurkul, the NE Regional Administrator, passes the herring to volunteerswho then place the fish in trucks waiting to transport them past the dams andto their spawning grounds.
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The next in a series that shows the procedure for capturing and transportingmigrating blueback herring and alewife past dams and to their spawning areasin the upper reaches of the river.
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The spring runs fill the river with an abundance of blueback herring andalewife.
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A surveyor reads the chart that tells him exactly where the historical dam thatis scheduled for removal is located.
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