{"id":627,"date":"2026-02-21T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/?p=627"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:48:43","slug":"dam-costs-the-local-economy-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/uncategorized\/dam-costs-the-local-economy-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam Costs the Local Economy Millions $"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The current dam is a drag on the local economy.<\/span> Several studies of the economic effects of removal of the nearby Edwards dam, and even analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the lower Androscoggin, suggest fixing the fish passage problem would be an economic boon to the area.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">NOAA predicts \u201cmodifications or removal of all dams in the Lower Androscoggin River to generate substantial commercial and recreational fishing benefits. Using only a subset of all affected fish species and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">conservative estimates of fisheries effects<\/span>, the estimated economic values for two different scenarios of habitat area above dams is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">$5.8 to $14.8 million in total benefits annually<\/span>.\u201d page 94.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">That is NOAA&#8217;s CONSERVATIVE estimate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/economics-of-dam-removal\/<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current dam is a drag on the local economy. Several studies of the economic effects of removal of the nearby Edwards dam, and even analysis from the National Oceanic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/brunswick-dam-fish-passage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}