May 4th FFAA meeting with Brookfield Power
Are we headed for a drought? What can we do about it.
May 4th. the FFAA, JP Ross Fly Rods, TU, The New York DEC and the West Canada River keepers will be meeting with Brookfield Power to discuss the current state of the river flows in the West Canada.
The attached graphs give you a 120 day and a 60 day picture of the river at Kast Bridge.
Please note that this data was collected all the way down at Herkimer and not at the mouth of the discharge at Trenton Falls. That means there is a lot of water coming in from other tribs.
What you will see is a trend that the river flows are going down slightly and also that every day, the river is pulsed.
The alternative is... make your own power.
We need power, and we need to conserve the ecosystem.
Issues we have with the West Canada is that many people, including the DEC thinks that this stream is a put and take fishery. Many of us think it is not, but we have no data to prove it, other than a small brookie and small brown trout caught here and there.
The DEC is using old data to make decisions on this river, and the rest of the organizations are just doing what they have licenses to do.
Is the West Canada Trophy Section worth saving, and is it a self sustaining fishery? Who knows, but JP Ross and the FFAA is going to help find out.
The meeting is 7pm, May 4th at the Trenton Falls Dover Road Bridge. Anyone being confrontational will be asked to leave. This meeting is open to the public.
