Dredging going on.

[rcguy]

I see on the facebook group "friends of Bennett springs" that there is a lot of gravel being  removed from the stream.

[NoLuck]

Look on the trout cam and you can see it once in a while. They built a gravel pier out to the middle of the stream so they could use an excavator to dredge with it. 

[Foghorn]

Hatchery boys said Mon-Thursday schedule for dredging.Was there Saturday and some of the effects must have broke loose as a wall of muddy water messed up fishing for a little bit.

[dave potts]

Is this jetty above the dam part of the project?  Just saw it on the trout cam.

[laker67]

They built it so they could remove the built up gravel from area above the dam. They will start backtracking, removing the gravel as they go. They are loading into trucks and hauling it out. Looks like they are digging down to the old wooden dam structure, and part of that has been removed or relocated.

 

[dave potts]

I went back and looked at this thread just now and noticed that the picture I copied and pasted has changed.  Wonder if it will keep changing as the trout cam itself changes. 

[XP 590]

On ‎12‎/‎4‎/‎2016 at 9:18 PM, dave potts said:

I went back and looked at this thread just now and noticed that the picture I copied and pasted has changed.  Wonder if it will keep changing as the trout cam itself changes. 

It looks you ended up posting a link to the live trout cam which refreshes every minute, so it will keep changing.

[oneshot]

What get me they do this but State will stop any Gravel Mining out of the river. Use to be some nice holes on the river and more fish.

What gets me is they say Forest Burning or gravel Mining disrupts this or that. Don't they realize this or that went through hundreds of years of disruption. Maybe disruption is the reason this or that is there.

 

oneshot

[cmoore03]

I don't believe I could have stated the above any better. 

[MOPanfisher]

Gravel mining from the rivers and creeks is one of those things that can be a double edged sword.  Done properly it can remove some of the stream choking gravel and create better habitat, done poorly it can damage a stream.  I don't believe the state has stopped gravel mining as much as put a lot of additional restrictions upon it.  Many counties have locations in small mostly dry streams that gravel is taken from to put on roads etc. places where they can and have removed gravel for many many years without serious depletion or degredation of the stream.