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    The Holyoke Dam, also referred to as the Hadley Falls Dam, or Hadley Falls Station is a granite dam built in tandem with the Holyoke Canal System at Hadley...
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  • The first Holyoke Dam is completed, made of timbers, it collapses within hours of its gates closure. 1849 – The second timber Holyoke Dam is completed...
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    planned industrial cities in the United States. Built in tandem with the Holyoke Dam to utilize the water power of Hadley Falls, it is one of a handful of...
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    slowed by main stem dams, which create a series of slow-flowing basins from Lake Francis Dam in Pittsburg, New Hampshire, to the Holyoke Dam at South Hadley...
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    record is listed by the IGFA as 11 pounds 4 ounces (5.1 kg), set at Holyoke Dam, Massachusetts, on 19 May 1986 by Robert A. Thibodo. American shad exhibit...
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    the inability to reach their spawning ground following a period of heavy dam construction.[citation needed] Fish passage efforts, including the Chesapeake...
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    into three canals based on elevation and distance from the inlet at the Holyoke Dam- the First Level Canal, Second Level Canal, and Third Level Canal. Constructed...
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    Hodges Village Dam – French River Holyoke Dam – Connecticut River Hunts Pond Dam (Mill Street Dam) – Beaver Brook Indian River Power Supply dam - Westfield...
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    Fish ladder (redirect from Dam fish ladder)
    elevators lift up to 500 fish at a time, 52 feet (15.85 m), to clear the Holyoke Dam. In 2013, the elevator carried over 400,000 fish. Rock-ramp fishway Uses...
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    approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge (1880s), Croton Aqueduct (NY, 1880), Holyoke Dam (Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1890s), piers for Manhattan/Brooklyn Bridge (Manhattan...
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