I never really gave it much thought, but there’s a big dam in Merrimack, next to our central fire station, on the Souhegan River.<\/p>\n
But it apparently needed a lot of work, and people realized that it serves no<\/em> benefit, and then people like NOAA (who I frequently forget is the National Oceanic<\/i> and Atmospheric Administration) pointed out that, from an ecological standpoint, it was doing more harm than good, by keeping fish from swimming upstream and the like.<\/p>\n So instead of spending the money to repair it, it was decided to take it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of course, this would be a really boring blog post if that was all. But they set up a webcam<\/a> trained on the dam. Unlike normal 640×480 ‘video’ feeds, this one is a decent camera (Canon PowerShot, from the EXIF data), snapping a photo every 15 minutes. (Jump from, say, August 1st to today to see the difference.) And in between, you can see the work being done. (And then start the slideshow!)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I never really gave it much thought, but there’s a big dam in Merrimack, next to our central fire station, on the Souhegan River. But it apparently needed a lot of work, and people realized that it serves no benefit, … Continue reading