Waterford group to remove dam to allow alewives to spawn

Waterford — Alewife Cove has been difficult on its namesake fish for decades.

A dam installed in the 1970s that blocks the cove just north of Niles Hill Road prevented access to alewife herring spawning waters. So Edward Lamoureux, co-chairman of the Alewife Cove Conservancy, likes to tell a joke.

“They go out to sea for four years, they return to where they would spawn, they get up there, and the first one up says, ‘Dam!’”

The Alewife Cove Conservancy is on the precipice of killing that joke, as it received a $187,282 grant this November from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund to remove the dam.

Read this article by Sten Spinella of The Day here.