DEP Denies Water Quality Certification to Brookfield

March 24, 2020General, Issues, ProjectsDeerfield River Watershed Trout Unlimited, FERC Relicensing, Fife Brook Dam Relicensing, Trou Spawning StudyEric Halloran

Adam Kautza from MA Fish and Wildlife joined us for the final day of the survey on March 19, 2018.

Citing documentation of the DRWTU Trout Spawning Studies, MA Department of Environmental Protection has denied the Water Quality Certification to Brookfield Power in the final phase of the relicensing of Fife Brook Dam and Bear Swamp Pumped Storage Facility. DEP will consider a new application that addresses MA Fish and Wildlife concerns regarding the impact of dam releases on wild fish and aquatic invertebrates such as threatened dragonflies.

You can read about it here: https://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/file_list.asp?accession_num=20200323-5136