Perhaps if you were a salmon with legendary leaping ability you could beat the steep rapids of Ten Mile River and get up and over the Hunt’s Mills Dam. But if you’re just a gravity-plagued herring or shad, the odds are long you’ll ever make it upstream to spawn.
But relief is on the way, not only for fish that migrate from the sea to Rhode Island’s inland waterways but for the state’s floundering economy.
A top member of the Obama administration joined state environmental officials on Thursday to celebrate a project that will soon provide clear passage for migrating fish on the Ten Mile and Pawcatuck rivers. The work is being financed with $3 million in federal stimulus funds and is expected to create nearly 200 jobs.
Read the complete story at The Providence Journal.