[at-l] river dams

[Carrie Dunning <crdunn%40umich%2Eedu>]

> 
> Please pardon me for being out of touch with current events along the AT, but I
> thought that the dam was not used anymore, since the river stopped being used
> for floating logs to the mill years ago.  Is this not true?  Is the river still
> used for transporting logs?  I remember it was a rather sobering experience to
> see the river full of logs and think that the next morning I was going to dash
> across when the water was down and there were hopefully no logs.  As it turned
> out, the ford itself wasn't as bad as I had been imagining it for weeks
> previous.

They don't float logs down the river anymore, but many of the big Maine
rivers
are still dam controlled. 

Carrie

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