I've Seen The Dam Light

One thing I have always been able to do, is to change my stance when given better information than I hold. Otherwise, I am stubborn as a mule.

Recently, I have been reading "better information" than I had before regarding the Hammant Brook situation. To remove the dams, or let them be? Originally I was all for just letting them be. They had been a part of the landscape for decades, and their removal, I felt at the time, would change the landscape in a negative way. Well, after reading the words of others involved in dam removal elsewhere in the state, and how it does increase the fish population, and return things back to a better state, and after reading what the Commonwealth is expecting in inspection fee's, repair and maintenance costs for the dams I have shifted my stance.

All it takes is "better information" than I had, and after many months of discussion I have found it.

It is time to take the dams down. Their removal will not have a negative impact on the environment, according to the experts, and our town, will save hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs associated with keeping them.