NH residents surveyed on options for aging mill dams
Release Date:
July 25, 2019
Old dams present a policy dilemma. If nothing is done, they will continue to deteriorate, potentially with bad results. Yet maintenance and upgrades are expensive. Might public funds be directed instead toward removal of obsolete dams, opening up free-flowing rivers? Selective and strategic dam removal would require public support and, even more fundamentally, awareness about this issue.
In this brief, we present results from statewide surveys in New Hampshire that explore public views about dam removal.