Dam engineers use “water-filled elevator” to prevent invasive animals from reaching the Chesapeake Bay
According to Chesapeake Bay Magazine, a team of engineers at the Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River in Maryland recently prevented 3,000 invasive fish from entering the Chesapeake Bay. The fish were removed from a fish lift, a “water-filled elevator” designed to help migrating native fish overcome the dam to their spawning grounds upstream. The […]
