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2024/2025 Connecticut River Report
From its beginning in 2022, the Connecticut River Committee has been focused on the relicensing of five hydroelectric facilities in the Connecticut River. Two of those facilities are in Massachusetts: the dam at Turners Falls and the Northfield Mountain pumped storage facility. In April 2024, LWVA submitted a statement to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a statement based on our existing regional League Connecticut River position, was adopted in 1965/1966 yet still amazingly relevant to many of today’s issues.
June 2025 Connecticut River Update
The Amherst League’s update/restudy of our existing sixty-year-old position on the Connecticut River was instigated by Elizabeth Davis in conjunction with the relicensing of five hydroelectric facilities on the Connecticut River. Our League’s involvement began about four years ago and culminated with the submission of our position statement to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in April 2024; and our statement to the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in February 2025.