Board members of the Little Hoosic Watershed Association held a meeting last week to view the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s recently completed work near a stream crossing in Berlin, where the changing course of the river resulted in severe erosion and loss of farmland.
In what seems counter-intuitive to those who have lived along the Little Hoosic, the design entails the strategic placement of large rocks instead of riprap or timber to form structures to stabilize the banks and bed of the stream, to increase the stream’s ability to transport sediment and to create deeper pools to support the trout population. The Association will plant the banks; Len Clapp is coordinating this effort.
