Adirondacks River Restoration Campaign

12/06/2021

We filed our comments and study requests on the 14 Beaver and Black River hydropower dams last week. Along with the comments we previously filed on the Moose River in September, we are now involved with the relicensing of 19 dams in the Black River Basin. We now await the proposed study plans for these projects. Here are the links to our comments.

Beaver & Black River
https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/filelist?accession_num=20211124-5166

Moose River:
https://elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/filelist?accession_number=20210917-5168

07/20/2021

FERC relicensing on the Moose River begins this week with the kickoff meeting at the Moose and Lyonsdale projects. This meeting will begin the process of studying the impacts of these hydropower dams on aquatic habitat, recreation, and other uses. We will be there to make sure our interests are protected!

07/12/2021

This is where we play at our house! When the Moose gets big….

06/10/2021

Next up in the relicensing of 21 hydropower dams in the Black River Basin is Gouldtown and Kosterville on the Moose River and Lyons Falls on the Black River. The FERC licensee for these developments, KEI Power Management, released its Notice of Intent/Pre-Application Document for these three hydropower dams. Flows into these projects are affected by upstream dams at Moose River and Lyonsdale that recently kicked off their relicensing processes. Unfortunately, we have seen no effort among these power companies to coordinate the relicensing efforts as part of a basin-scale relicensing.

04/30/2021

Today marks the start of the formal relicensing process on the Moose River with EONY filing of it Notice of Intent (NOI) and Pre-application Document (PAD) with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the relicensing of the Moose River Hydroelectric Project. Simultaneously, Eagle Creek filed a NOI and PAD for the Lyonsdale Hydroelectric Project also located on the Moose River. Both EONY and Eagle Creek have applied to use the Traditional Licensing Process (TLP), a process that limits stakeholder consultation prior to its formal license application. We anticipate that there will be an initial public meetings regarding these relicensings on August 27th. The FERC relicencing of these two projects is part of a basin-wide relicensing of 21 hydropower dams on the Black, Beaver and Moose rivers.

04/06/2021

Federal relicensing of 21 hydropower dams in the Adirondacks begins this month on the Moose, Beaver, and Black rivers, home to iconic whitewater boating runs treasured by paddlers throughout the northeast. For the next six years, AW will be at fighting to protect and expand paddling opportunities on these rivers. To support our efforts to restore rivers and our opportunities to enjoy them, AW launched the Adirondacks River Restoration Campaign, https://arcg.is/0brC19 To get involved, SIGN UP HERE https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZTDQ6S8

The federal relicensing of 21 hydropower dams in the Black River Basin in New York provides a once in a lifetime opportunity to restore flows to the Black, Beaver, and Moose Rivers to improve aquatic habitat and enhance recreational opportunities

04/02/2021

03/26/2021

Check out part 2 here: http://www.vimeo.com/19575890

03/26/2021

Check out part one here: http://www.vimeo.com/18608476

03/26/2021

Relicensing of the Moose , Beaver, and Black River projects is set to begin in April. American Whitewater will be working to protect whitewater boating on the Bottom Moose, one of the most iconic whitewater boating runs in the northeast.