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Saturday • March 1st

Doors open at 5:00pm for Raffle preview. Cash Bar from 5:15pm to 6:15pm.

Location: Crystal Peak Banquet Hall 164 Torrington Road Winsted CT 06098

Tickets are $60

Menu:

Passed Hors D'oevres

Salad

Grilled Black Angus New York Strip Steak

Apple Cranberry Sweet Sausage Stuffed Chicken Breast

Oven Roasted Crab Stuffed Shrimp

Penne Ala Vodka With Roasted Tomatoes

Roasted Garlic Whipped Potatos & Seasonal Vegtables

Dark and White Chocolate Tuxedo Cake

Coffee & Tea

No Tickets at the door. Tickets can be purchased online here,  Upcountry Sportfishing, Orvis Avon, or by mail. Mail to: Tom Karpeichik 701 Niles Road New Hartford, CT 06057 Tom's phone: 860-309-5510

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Establishing an optimum flow regime in the Upper Farmington River remains one of our top priorities.

To this end, House Bill 5355 - AN ACT CONCERNING CONSERVATION OF CERTAIN WATERS OF THE UPPER FARMINGTON RIVER, will receive a public hearing on Friday, March 8 starting at 11 a.m. I encourage you to submit written and/or oral testimony. If you testify orally (in-person or Zoom) it should be accompanied by written testimony. The deadline to register is Thursday, March 7 at 3 pm.

Submit oral testimony here.

Submit written testimony here.

(Make sure to pick date March 8th. Then In the Bill field pick Bill HB05355.)

The simplest option is to select "Type In My Testimony" and copy and paste this: 
I support the goals of bill 5355:
(1) for the state of Connecticut to gain greater control over water releases and holdbacks out of the Colebrook River and Goodwin Dams. 
(2) for DEEP to oversee an updated instream flow study (last done in 1992). This study would assist with long-term management of the river flow.

You can watch the meeting live on youtube here:

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Create a new email and copy the following four email addresses into the too: field.
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Then copy and paste the subject: Letter of Concern - West Branch Farmington River Water Flows into the subject field.
 
Next copy and paste the following into the body of the email, make sure to type your name and state at the end of it.
 
Representative Joseph Gresko, Chairperson
Senator Rick Lopes, Chairperson
Senator Stephen Harding, Ranking Member
Representative Patrick Callahan, Ranking Member
Environment Committee
Room 3200
Legislative Office Building
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
 
Please raise for a public hearing two bills that have been proposed to the Environment Committee to address erratic flows in the Upper Farmington River. This nationally renowned and federally-designated Wild and Scenic River begins below the MDC’s Goodwin Dam in Hartland and flows for 15 miles through Barkhamsted, New Hartford, and Collinsville (Canton). Less than two miles upriver of this dam is the Colebrook River Dam which is a flood control dam owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Currently, the USACE will only release (or hold back releases) when requested to do so by the MDC.
 
The first bill requires the MDC to make requests for releases from the Colebrook River Dam, as necessary, to maintain the flow of water in the West Branch of the Farmington River at or above a rate determined to be a sufficient minimum flow rate by DEEP.
 
The second bill directs DEEP to oversee an update to the Farmington River Instream Flow Study last completed in 1992, which is linked here:
 
Updating this study will provide information to determine the best flow regime for the Upper Farmington River to support its ecological health and recreational flows in light of changes in climate, as well as recent changes to state and pending changes to federal regulations governing the water in Colebrook River Reservoir.
 
Thank you for considering these two bills.
 
Sincerely,
 
Name:
Town: