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Groton #9 dam on Vermont’s Wells River. (Photo: Connecticut River Watershed Council)

The Connecticut River Watershed Council has announced it has received more than $270,000 in grants to help fund several river restoration projects in Vermont and New Hampshire this year.

The grants, and other funding secured by CRWC, will fund the removal of an old mill dam, conservation projects on four local farms, and the replacement of an undersized culvert.

The dam removal project will take place in Groton, Vermont on the Wells River. The old dam is just 1.5 miles downstream from a similar deadbeat dam removed in 2014 by CRWC and partners. Removal of the Groton #9 dam in 2015 will open 34 miles of stream, roughly half of which is cold water habitat for native Brook trout.

Read about river restoration projects in Vermont and New Hampshire.