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  • Monthly Image: Wappinger Dam Gears

    A walk around Wappinger Lake brought me to the old penstock controls:

    Wappinger Dam - old penstock gearing - E view
    Wappinger Dam – old penstock gearing – E view

    Still meshed after all these years:

    Wappinger Dam - old penstock gearing - SE view
    Wappinger Dam – old penstock gearing – SE view

    The “new” penstock intake control, a pair of utterly practical and totally non-photogenic screw drives, sits just to the left of these relics.

    A night view of the penstock from some years ago:

    Wappingers Falls Bridge - Pixel XL HDR - 2017-09-22
    Wappingers Falls Bridge – Pixel XL HDR – 2017-09-22

    It still carries water to the recently refurbished power plant downstream on the right.

    Those gears will remain meshed after everything else rots away …