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Fish Ladder Feasibility Study 2011-2013
Grant from NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program
Report August 26th, 2013
The Lawrence Brook, a tributary of the Raritan River in New Jersey, is impounded currently by multiple dams, preventing upstream passage for fish. Following an educational presentation about the serious depletion of herring and other Atlantic fish the Lawrence Brook Watershed Partnership applied to the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program (NY-NJ HEP) and was awarded a grant of $47,000 for a partial feasibility study for fish ladders around the lowest two dams on the Lawrence Brook, the Westons Mill Dam and the Westons Arch Dam. A large range of stakeholders in the area were made aware of the project and invited to participate. If successful, the installation of fish ladders at these locations would add three miles of unobstructed stream habitat for migratory fish. Species that have been seen at the base of the dame include blueback herring and alewife. The dams cannot be taken out, as the Brook is a drinking water supply and has been so since the 1860’s. A private company owned it for the first for 10 years; then the City of New Brunswick took it over. The water supply is needed for the future to supply three local communities of approximately 100,000 population, along with the Delaware-RaritanCanal.