There was a meeting at the Hoosic Valley High School last Wednesday . It was hosted by Brookfield Renewable Energy Group (BREG) to provide residents and business owners information regarding the potential for flooding along the Hoosic River downstream of the Johnsonville Dam.
The information disclosed evidently included that BREG has a Johnsonville Dam Emergency Action Plan (EAP), that an EAP exercise was conducted earlier that day, and that there exists a notification procedure for Johnsonville Dam high flow events.
The notice was published in the Legal Notices section of the Troy Record, one meeting only. I wonder who would be affected, how badly, and why the people deemed to be potentially affected would not be notified personally. How much notice would be available----if flooding caused the dam to break, not merely overflow? Does this single meeting relieve BREG from any liability if chaos were to ensue? I'll have to see if I can retrieve minutes of the meeting before I head for higher ground.
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