Nice video, but I couldn't tell what people expect the dam owner/power company to do. Are they responsible for the trash, debris, and sediment that comes down the river? When construction, development, etc upstream ruins your pond, is the pond owner to blame? Maybe the lawsuit should focus on the source of the pollution.
Another “The rich need to pay their fair” complaint. I noticed there wasn’t a single mention of all those folks the dam is providing electric for. In any case, what is the damn were gone tomorrow, would the same water and debris not come down the river?
The video made a bunch of vague allusions to problems supposedly caused by the dam, but in the end, it just sounds like someone trying to extract money from the utility company by claiming that all of the trash/debris that comes down the Susquehanna into the Bay is the fault of the dam through which it must pass.
What you ought to do is sue Pennsylvania for the amount of pollution they allow to come down. Force them to put up garbage catching steel mesh nets on the Pa side of the line. You should also go after PA for the amount of fertilizer and chemical pollution in the water.
All water that flows into a dam must flow out of the dam - it just stores it for a while. All rivers carry debris and flotsam. The dam just collects the trash from upstream - they don't create it. If dam was removed, the same waters would still flow. Removal of the dam would return the river to a natural state, but we would need another source of electricity in the area. There are other northern dams on this river - Safe Harbor and Dock Street are examples. Much industry has been lost on the Susquehanna - paper mills, tanneries, lumbering pools, pollution from coaling, and siltation. The Western Susquehanna is recovering dramatically from coal field pollution. North Branch of Susquehanna was just named river of the year. This dam really functions to generate electricity. The clean water act has really cleaned the Susquehanna dramatically. The nature of this ancient river is wide, and shallow. In time of floods, debris will wash through the dam. If the dam was removed, floods would still wash debris down the river.
Nice video, but I couldn't tell what people expect the dam owner/power company to do. Are they responsible for the trash, debris, and sediment that comes down the river? When construction, development, etc upstream ruins your pond, is the pond owner to blame? Maybe the lawsuit should focus on the source of the pollution.
We need to also hold Pennsylvania and New York accountable as well! We end up with all of their trash and then it runs through the dam!
It’s coming down every river in the world not an exclusive issue for Conowingo.
Another “The rich need to pay their fair” complaint. I noticed there wasn’t a single mention of all those folks the dam is providing electric for. In any case, what is the damn were gone tomorrow, would the same water and debris not come down the river?
Deals made behind closed doors? Gee that doesn’t sound like government.
The video made a bunch of vague allusions to problems supposedly caused by the dam, but in the end, it just sounds like someone trying to extract money from the utility company by claiming that all of the trash/debris that comes down the Susquehanna into the Bay is the fault of the dam through which it must pass.
It is not about money. It is about clean water. Not about money. Lawyers want money
What you ought to do is sue Pennsylvania for the amount of pollution they allow to come down. Force them to put up garbage catching steel mesh nets on the Pa side of the line. You should also go after PA for the amount of fertilizer and chemical pollution in the water.
It's not the civilians,it's the big business and electric cars will make this worse
Commenting for the algorithm. Thank you guys.
I helped build the new turbines that were put in around 08,09.
All water that flows into a dam must flow out of the dam - it just stores it for a while. All rivers carry debris and flotsam. The dam just collects the trash from upstream - they don't create it. If dam was removed, the same waters would still flow. Removal of the dam would return the river to a natural state, but we would need another source of electricity in the area. There are other northern dams on this river - Safe Harbor and Dock Street are examples. Much industry has been lost on the Susquehanna - paper mills, tanneries, lumbering pools, pollution from coaling, and siltation. The Western Susquehanna is recovering dramatically from coal field pollution. North Branch of Susquehanna was just named river of the year. This dam really functions to generate electricity. The clean water act has really cleaned the Susquehanna dramatically. The nature of this ancient river is wide, and shallow. In time of floods, debris will wash through the dam. If the dam was removed, floods would still wash debris down the river.
Save the bay
It would be cool to know how the anadromous fish would react to an unobstructed Susquehanna
Oh boo hoo, that dam has been there forever. I lived on Shures Landing road in the 70s.
Remove the dam.