Headgates dam Raritan river Duke Island Park:

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Originally Posted by shucker

Really!!!!!Dams hold the river back and load up silt and pollutants above them, I've never seen the river cleaner and healthier since the 3 dams were removed.The good fishing you speak of is because fish are trapped in these areas which makes your average fisherman become a star,instead of trying and learn a river and the secrets they hold.

Shucker, You are 100% correct... well said!!! What people fail to realize... If mother nature wanted an impoundment at that location, mother nature would have put one there! The algae bloom choked the life out of the river, dropping saturated Oxygen to almost immeasurable levels! Heavy contaminates simply sank and were trapped in the silt/slime because the flow rates were hampered by a dam. Fish migrations stopped in their tracks. Water temps rose with such a low flow rate.