INSIDE the fish ladder on the Raritan river:

[AndyS]

more.

[AndyS]

1. looking across the river
2. camera and viewing room
3. camera
4. camera
5. top of viewing room
6. cleaning the glass
7. entrance to fish ladder
8. removing debris
9. top of entire fish ladder
10. portal sign
11. long view
12. down river
13. stairs going down to viewing room
14. cleaning the white background
15. NJFG&W car
16. removing debris

[surfrod]

Andy,

You are DA man... awesome. Thanks for the pics and updates!

[surfrod]

is that camera online similar to the fairmont water works ladder?

[AndyS]

Good question. I thought the way to go would be to web cam the whole operation, but since it is in a remote location with no hard wire available they went with recording tapes and deep cycle batteries. There are some fish ladders with a web cam, and even eagles nests and so on, we'll see what the future holds, but till now this is how the operation works. I did get to watch some of the tapes a few weeks ago and the system works very well. Hours of operating the camera were scaled back to mainly daylight hours when the shad move, and just for the spring months. The camera is based primarily on the shad run.

[Mike M]

Good work Andy. Thanks for the info.

[duranautic al]

Very cool stuff!

[joeya78]

awesome Andy, not everyday you get to see that