Garrision Dam NFH Still Threatened

In 2009, Geosynthetica’s editor had an opportunity to visit the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, at which a pond lining initiative, started in 2002, was coming to a close. (It was also one of the last Dow Geomembranes installations before Dow shuttered that side of its business.) While the 2009 work was made possible through a federal funds grant, the hatchery is now under threat from abrupt federal funds cuts. According to Rob Holm, project leader of the Garrison Dam and Valley City hatcheries, the proposed cuts would eliminate funding from the Service for stocking waters managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.