The Hereford Manor Lakes Conservancy and Watershed Group will hold a public meeting June 26 to discuss the most cost effective measures to repair and rehabilitate area dams in Beaver County.

The meeting will start at 7 p.m. at the Zelienople Municipal Airport in Beaver County at the junction of Routes 288 and 588.

The meeting will review a feasibility study commissioned by the group and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to determine and recommend to the Fish and Boat Commission the best way to repair the dams.

According to the PFBC, the dams appear to have been constructed in conjunction with strip mining operations prior to 1958. Hereford Manor Lakes have been listed by the PFBC as a high hazard dam built at the end of a strip mining operation.

For more information, visit the HMLC&WG website.

6/6/2008