MWA was awarded a grant from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National Fish & Wildlife Foundation to monitor the impact of the Hughesville Dam Removal. Over the next 5 years, we will collect biological, chemical and physical data to help measure our river restoration work done in this focus area - which is multiple sites up and downstream of the old Hughesville Dam site off of Route 627 in Pohatcong Township, NJ.

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This study will help us to:

• better understand changes in water quality, aquatic habitat and fish populations after a dam removal;

• provide baseline data to be used for the Warren Glen and Bloomsbury dam removals;

• provide science-based information on the long-term benefits of dam removals; and

• inform future policy on dam removals in river restoration projects.