Cleaning Your Weirs Can Do More Than You'd Think For Your Waterways [341]
Channel: Science and Environment Council
Date: 2021-04-24

Weirs, or low dams designed to help raise water levels, can cause a host of issues when they become clogged.

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What happened with this wetland is we ended up with the weirs being dammed up and plugged and water really wasn't going through the wetlands. We've cleared the weirs out, water started flowing, and what we found is it became a true wetland again. We started seeing the animal life come back. We started seeing fish. We started seeing a real ecosystem come out of this that didn't exist before as far as the dry areas. So it's a really marked improvement, not to mention the improvement in water flow in protection against flooding.