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I googled everything I could think of, but can't find what looks like a boat launch project. Anybody know what it is? They, (I think I saw Warren County trucks there) started it last fall and when my wife and I kayaked through there yesterday we saw that there's a big hole right at rivers edge like they're going to pour a concrete ramp. Maybe it's a toxic cleanup and they removed something.

 

Any how good to be out, saw a couple nice trout, suckers and a glimpse of a huge fish, might of been a carp. And a close up view of a sharpshin. And 2 of these dudes.

 

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I've been hearing about a project down there, but I honestly have no idea what it is.  The Hughesville Mill dam is fully removed and has been for a few months, so it is not that.  I think I'm hearing it is further down in the Riegelsville area?  Maybe I'll take a ride down there this week.  A boat launch doesn't make any sense.   

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Is bloomsbury dam ever going to be taken out?

 

Yes, but don't hold your breath because it is an Army Corps project.  Let's just say that they first got involved in trying to take out that dam about 9 years ago.  Since that time, our Lower Musconetcong River Restoration Partnership removed 7 dams on the Musky and they still have yet to begin with their one.  

 

 

Tell me again why liberals think the government can help us?  :rofl:

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I should add that the huge Warren Glen Mill dam up in the Musky Gorge is also in the works.  It is co-owned by the Division of Fish & Wildlife and IPPE who owns the paper mills at 519 and down at Cyphers Road.  The Cyphers Road mill was once powered by the Hughesville Mill dam which was just removed last summer and fall and was just below route 519.  The mill on the other side of 519 was powered by the 35' high Warren Glen Mill dam up in the Gorge about 2/3 of a mile.  But the dredging alone will take 3 full years before the dam itself can be removed and the Musky Gorge restored to its former beauty.  If you've ever laid eyes on the Gorge below the dam, you'll understand how spectacular that water will be with the dam gone.  We believe that given the age of the dam, all the huge boulders would have been left in the river and are simply covered up in silt over the last 120+ years.  When removed, the river should look as good upstream of the dam as it does below.

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I should add that the huge Warren Glen Mill dam up in the Musky Gorge is also in the works.  It is co-owned by the Division of Fish & Wildlife and IPPE who owns the paper mills at 519 and down at Cyphers Road.  The Cyphers Road mill was once powered by the Hughesville Mill dam which was just removed last summer and fall and was just below route 519.  The mill on the other side of 519 was powered by the 35' high Warren Glen Mill dam up in the Gorge about 2/3 of a mile.  But the dredging alone will take 3 full years before the dam itself can be removed and the Musky Gorge restored to its former beauty.  If you've ever laid eyes on the Gorge below the dam, you'll understand how spectacular that water will be with the dam gone.  We believe that given the age of the dam, all the huge boulders would have been left in the river and are simply covered up in silt over the last 120+ years.  When removed, the river should look as good upstream of the dam as it does below.

Asbury to Bloomsbury has that central PA limestone look and feel, but Pine Hollow is about the prettiest stretch of river in NJ.

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Warren County stormwater basin is being installed.  Just found out the details.  Upgrading a system in that area.  

Thanks. Boat launch made no sense, but that's what it looks like. Not sure if a stormwater basin makes sense either, not that I'm a scientist, it's a low swampy spot already, are there stormwater basins anywhere else? As I'm typing this I can picture one in Hackettstown, where there's a lot more pavement and development, the only thing that has changed in Finesville in the last 100 years is the dam removal. ha

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Asbury to Bloomsbury has that central PA limestone look and feel, but Pine Hollow is about the prettiest stretch of river in NJ.

 

 

Most folks don't realize that western NJ shares the exact same limestone belt that produces all of the eastern PA limestone spring creeks.  It's just that the receding Wisconsin glacier carved out more of the soils in eastern PA which created streams that were more heavily limestone influenced than freestone influenced.  The Musky is in between as is the lower Pequest, the Pohatcong, and the Lopatcong, the latter being NJ's only pure limestoner.  But there's a great reason the middle and lower Musky from about Changewater down remains cold enough for trout all summer and that's because of all the limestone ground water mixing with surface water and both cleaning it and keeping it cooler than other pure freestone rivers.    

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Most folks don't realize that western NJ shares the exact same limestone belt that produces all of the eastern PA limestone spring creeks.  It's just that the receding Wisconsin glacier carved out more of the soils in eastern PA which created streams that were more heavily limestone influenced than freestone influenced.  The Musky is in between as is the lower Pequest, the Pohatcong, and the Lopatcong, the latter being NJ's only pure limestoner.  But there's a great reason the middle and lower Musky from about Changewater down remains cold enough for trout all summer and that's because of all the limestone ground water mixing with surface water and both cleaning it and keeping it cooler than other pure freestone rivers.    

Thanks for taking the time to explain it out like that, very informative, NJW&W is lucky to have a guy like yourself posting. Why don't any of the State biologist have a presence here?

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Thanks for taking the time to explain it out like that, very informative, NJW&W is lucky to have a guy like yourself posting. Why don't any of the State biologist have a presence here?

 

I do know that some of the biologists in fisheries post and read some of the fishing forums, but I'm not sure I know any of the game biologists that post or monitor this site or NJH or any others that might be out there.  

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