UPDATE: Restoration of Waterloom Pond Dam

The Town has been notified of delays regarding the work on Waterloom Pond Dam. Owners expect enough restoration to be complete by the new year for the pond to be refilled. Please see below for further information.

A Message from the Owners of Waterloom Pond Dam:

“We’ve unfortunately hit a snag - operating the head gate for the first time in many years led to one of the 146-year-old cast iron pinions snapping, and we now cannot close the main door. We are in the process of having replacement parts manufactured, but the lead time is long. As we indicated at the town meeting last year, the major problem with the Waterloom Pond Dam is that it was originally built in 1776, and it’s been decades since any amount of minor maintenance has been done and likely over a century since any major maintenance has been done (the Army Corps report from 1931 indicates several of the same maintenance issues that we’re working on now that have not be addressed since then.) We’re working as quickly as we can with the funds we have to do the required restorations, however we really don’t want a failure to cause us to lose the dam forever, so we’re being thorough and methodical with our inspection and repair process.

We’ve notified FERC, NHDES Dam Bureau and the town about the delay. We hope to have the head gate operational by the end of the year, which will allow the pond to re-fill then. We then hopefully have just one more dewatering at some point in the next 3 years, which will allow us to install a stoplog to prevent needing to dewater to do routine maintenance in the future.”