Wheeler Pond Dam Removal and North Brook Restoration, Berlin, Massachusetts
Applicant: Organization for the Assabet, Sudbury, and Concord Rivers (OARS)
Funded amount: $50,000
Other contributions: $351,000
This project will support the key pre-construction tasks of obtaining all necessary permits and preparing the 100% engineering design plans necessary to remove the Wheeler Pond dam. Wheeler Pond Dam, which impounds North Brook, a tributary to the Assabet River, in Berlin, Massachusetts. This will restore connectivity and ecological function to the channel, floodplain, and riparian corridor of North Brook, and allow wild Eastern Brook Trout to move upstream and downstream to spawning areas, food sources, and summer temperature refugia. This will enhance the recreational fishing opportunities in North Brook. It will also remove a Significant Hazard Dam in unsafe condition which will contribute to public safety and improve resiliency to future negative impacts of intense precipitation and flooding.
- Impoundment upstream of the dam
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