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Comments to Consider As Summer Comes Around and Adventures Call...With focus on river outings or finding alternatives for allowing people to access rivers and waterfalls

on Thu, 04/22/2021 - 22:07

There will be discussion about what a power company, First Light, will do or not do in terms of monitoring or regulating how many people access the Housatonic River in Salisbury CT as the weather warms. Many people have been finding the idea of sitting along the river bank, maybe even in the river, a passtime they tell their friends about. Some seek to sit in the whitewater or small falls as though a water park, but that can prove dangerous so ideally people would stick to water parks for those kinds of adventures.

Looking at the river and hiking along a safe path if one is made and clearly