Effects of Removing Good Hope Mill Dam on Selected Physical Chemical and Biological Characteristics of Conodoguinet Creek Cumberland County ... Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5226

The implications of dam removal on channel characteristics water quality benthic invertebrates and fish are not well understood because of the small number of removals that have been studied. Comprehensive studies that document the effects of dam removal are just beginning to be published but most research has focused on larger dams or on the response of a single variable (such as benthic invertebrates). This report prepared in cooperation with the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed Association provides an evaluation of how channel morphology bed-particle-size distribution water quality benthic invertebrates fish and aquatic habitat responded after removal of Good Hope Mill Dam (a small run of the river dam) from Conodoguinet Creek in Cumberland County Pa.