Connecticut

Fish Study to Provide Paddling Opportuniies: May - June 2016

There will be continuous boatable flows in the Turner Falls bypass reach the entire month of May and some of June. Please try to use these flow and build interest in the reach. Flows between 2500 and 4400 cfs are excellent; flows of 1500 cfs are still paddlable. Schedule below.

The flows are part of a fish study. They want to determine if an altrasound array at the power station can keep shad away from the outflow so they will move upriver to the dam where a new fish passage devide would be installed. They will radio monitor a number of the shad releases from the Holyoke Dam. Once those fish have been recorded at Turners Falls, these flows may end. The May flows, which are the best, are pretty sure; the first two weeks of June have a good probability of happening; but the last two weeks of June may prove iffy.