Kinneytown Dam and fish ladder.
ANSONIA/SEYMOUR – The following is copied from an email newsletter sent out by the Kinneytown Dam Removal Project team. You can sign up for the newsletter by clicking this link, then clicking the blue “Sign Up For Project Updates” button (you may have to scroll down a bit).
Our fourth bi-monthly community meeting will take place on Monday March 24 at 6:00 pm in the Bingo Hall of the Seymour Community Center, as well as online via Zoom. We will have speakers from the dam removal engineering firm GEI Consultants, Inc. and local environmentalist Kevin Zak.
Registration for this meeting is required, whether you plan to attend in-person or online:
https://savethesound-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/OqsTb5_1Re6jZC3NVwZTyQ#/registration
Food will be provided. Children over the age of 3 are also welcome to participate at a separate activity table during the meeting. Please specify in your registration if you intend to bring children over the age of 3, or if you require a translator.
Project Updates
As part of the design process for the sewer relocation being made necessary by the dam removal project, survey and geo-technical investigations are anticipated to be underway in Seymour in coming months. Contractors are expected to focus survey work and soil boring along Route 115 and in the northern reach of the canal between Kinneytown Dam and the canal reservoir (Coe Pond). To facilitate this work, water levels in Coe Pond and the canal may be temporarily raised to allow for a barge to navigate the canal.
Our project team has recently submitted a very extensive grant application to NOAA requesting additional funding for the dam removal project. The application summarizes progress achieved over the last two years and forecasts the next steps including design, permitting, decommissioning, construction, and restoration associated with the removal. For more information on the overall project visit: www.nvcogct.gov/kinneytown
As always, we encourage public input throughout the entire dam removal process. You may leave feedback, comments, and ask questions via our outreach form here.
Thank you for your continued interest in this project! We hope you will join us on March 24.
Sincerely,
The Kinneytown Project Team
