Day: March 2, 2012

A combination of neglect and last year’s storms demolished much of the Red Oaks Mill dam:

The linear “rocks” just downstream of the dam are sections of the concrete cap:

With the cap gone, the concrete-and-rock fill should disintegrate in short order:

Upstream of the rubble, the Wappingers Creek dropped about three feet, exposing bedrock and undercutting the old shoreline:

Downstream, not much changed. This wasn’t a catastrophic dam break that wiped entire towns off the map.

In February 2005, the fishing must have been pretty good:

It’s endured quite a few floods like this one in February 2008:

But in June 2008, after the waters receded, you could tell things weren’t right:

Looks like a shovel-ready project to me…