Completed in 1999
For more
information contact:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Raleigh Ecological Services Office
551-F Pylon Drive
PO Box 33726
Raleigh, NC 27636
| Project
Description and Outcome: |
This project removed
Rains Mill Dam on the Little River in the Neuse River Basin during
November 1999. A partnership headed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service was responsible for removing this 270-foot-long, 10-foot-high
barrier. This
was the third dam removal project, which is part of a larger initiative
to restore fish passage at five sites in the Neuse River Basin.
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Removal of Rains Mill Dam |
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| Benefits: |
Removal
opened up 151 miles of suitable spawning and rearing habitat for
alewife, blueback herring, American shad, American eel, hickory
shad, striped bass, Atlantic sturgeon, and shortnose sturgeon. Elimination
of the associated 28-acre impoundment will also allow reoccupation
of the site by two species of endangered freshwater mussel. |
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| Partners: |
North Carolina
Division of Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
Marine Corps, National Wildlife Federation, North Carolina Wildlife
Resources Commission, and the USFWS Coastal
Program. |
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