The Brandywine River Restoration Trust recently began removing part of the DuPont Experimental Station Dam in an effort to bring migrating fish further upstream.
The deconstruction of Dam 6, also known as the Lower Hagley Yard Mill Dam, will help allow shad to swim further up the Brandywine as they did 300 years ago before the dams were constructed.
The overall dam removal project is reconnecting 11 miles of river for migrating fish. The 11 dams along the Brandywine were previously used to power mills in the 19th century…