Raritan River Nevius St. Dam Breaching

[Mark B.]

7/22/13 @ 7:30 AM.

Ceremony w/ officials on the bridge @ 10:00 AM,……………….after which, the breaching will continue .

[Skunk City]

Rumor has it Andy S has been camping out in anticipation . Good to hear these things coming down, only going to get better in that river.

[kcritch]

Very cool news....Just there the other day - Roberts street anyway - and the river looked great so I was wondering if the Nevius was on the plan. Nice to see the progress.

[SkillfulAngler908]

Originally Posted by Skunk City

Rumor has it Andy S has been camping out in anticipation .

LOL. Im real curious to see how this changes the river above/below the dam. When robert st came down last year it looked like a completely different river.

[Eskimo]

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This should be interesting. I saw an excavator parked there this morning. I didn't think anything of it until I saw this thread.

Here's a news article about the Nevius Street Dam removal from 2011:
http://www.nj.com/messenger-gazette/...n_raritan.html

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[Lard Almighty]

Originally Posted by SkillfulAngler908

LOL. Im real curious to see how this changes the river above/below the dam. When robert st came down last year it looked like a completely different river.

The river above the dam will probably lower by about a foot or so. The river below the dam probably won't change much. It's not a very big dam, so taking it down probably won't have the drastic impact on flow that the Roberts Street dam removal had.

[AndyS]

Woooooooo Hoooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!! :d

[bigfishy]

Originally Posted by Lard Almighty

The river above the dam will probably lower by about a foot or so. The river below the dam probably won't change much. It's not a very big dam, so taking it down probably won't have the drastic impact on flow that the Roberts Street dam removal had.

Agreed 100%....Small dam so it shouldn't change the look of the river much....

Now when the dukes dam comes down it will change things up river for many many miles....

[AndyS]

Once you pass the old Roberts St Dam in a canoe it goes to complete slow water. Since the Raritan has a slow gradiant, every little dam slows down the water. Guess I'll start my letter writing to Dukes to get rid of the Headgates !!

[Mark B.]

Heard this morning that it may not happen, today.