Ken Finkelstein, of OR&R’s Assessment and Restoration Division attended the formal opening of the fish bypass around the Tingue Dam along the Naugatuck River in Seymour, Connecticut on October 30, 2014.

This bypass has opened approximately 30 miles of habitat for a variety of anadromous fish and cost 6.3 million dollars. Those funds came from the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the Housatonic River Natural Resource Trustee Council. Ken Finkelstein is a member of the latter and had much to do in allocating $600,000 for the bypass from the 7.5 million Superfund natural resource damage award from General Electric (GE). The event included speeches by Senator Blumenthal and Representative DeLauro and was held on a beautiful fall day at the newly built Paul Pawlak Sr. Bypass Channel and Park.

For further information, contact Ken.Finkelstein@noaa.gov.

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