SUN JOURNAL • March 31, 2020
In consultation with Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, town officials will close access to the public boat launch at Route 196 and Frost Hill, above Worumbo Dam. Eagle Creek usually installs a floating boat barrier near the dam by May 31. This is typically when the high flows from the runoff have subsided, and they can safely send a crew in a boat onto the river to install it. They cannot put personnel on the river with a flow over 5,000 cubic feet per second. Currently the flow is 10,000-plus cubic feet per second. The public launch will be barricaded and not reopened until it is safe for the public to use that area of the river.