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Soundings BlogA fresh take on the Albemarle-Pamlico region's salty affairs North Carolina: First in Dam Removal (Part I and II)For the past twenty years, North Carolinians have been working together to restore access to the Neuse River's historic fish spawning habitat - one dam removal at a timeFebruary 13th, 2018 | By Kelsey Ellis, APNEP
With the demolition of Raleigh’s Milburnie Dam in November 2017, the Neuse River now flows freely from Falls Lake to Pamlico Sound for the first time in over a hundred years. Safety concerns contributed to the dam’s removal, but the main reason for the removal of Milburnie was to enable fish such as American Shad, Striped Bass, and Atlantic Sturgeon to once again migrate from the ocean to their historic spawning habitat upstream of the dam. Twenty years ago, when local, state, and federal groups set out to demolish another dam on the Neuse River, removing a large dam because of the ecological implications was unprecedented. The efforts by North Carolinians and partner groups to change this paradigm ended up not only reopening the Neuse River to fish migration, but also impacting dam removal policies nationwide.
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