Work is scheduled to begin this week on the removal of the Saw Mill Dam on the Boquet River. It will also remove one of the last remaining links to its milling past.
Work on the $250,000 project, which is being bankrolled by the Lake Champlain Basin Program, is expected to be completed within 45 days.
Replacing the wooden structure would be cost prohibitive, said town officials, about four times the demolition costs.
The US Fish & Wildlife Service has said that following its removal, salmon will now be able to move more freely up the river, a measure that may boost fishing and tourism in the surrounding community.
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