Long Pond Dam Spillway

Future Site of a Nature-like Fishway!

This fishway will reopen an excellent habitat for. the Alewife river herring as they make their journey from salt water to freshwater to spawn!  Additionally, this thpe of fishway is beneficial to American Eels and other riverine life in Whitford Brook.


Here is an example of a nature-like fishway on the Pawcatuck River, Richmond, Rhode Island

Lower Shannock Falls NLF weirs, Pawcatuck River, Richmond, RI