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Senior Center Dam

Access PointPortageHazardWaterfall / Large DropClass III+41.04820, -74.44200
Senior Center Dam

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Dam #3 at 2nd Street in Butler portaged on right. There's ceramic pipes in the spillway, occasional strainers in the right but the real problem is boat abuse as the bow smashes into a gravelly spillway if you run.

If you want to launch  here, launch below dam carrying down old spillways on river left. Not a bad launch, but there's no way off the water on river left (retaining wall with fence). Access is via 2nd street and the senior center parking lot. At high water ( somewhere around 1000 cfs+) where the missing the eddy on the main street dam=death, a car portage from waterfall court to here isn't a bad idea.


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