Controversy water over the dam (Fort Halifax dam finally breached, Maine)

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http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=200113&ac=PHnws

WINSLOW — Closure came to the controversy surrounding Fort Halifax Dam on Thursday morning with a few blows from a hoe-ram.

The demolition machine, essentially an excavator with a hydraulic hammer, began to breach a portion of the 100-year-old hydroelectric facility about 10 a.m. as two dozen people watched from the Sebasticook River bridge.

Some bemoaned the dam's removal; others watched with delight as the water began to flow through the opening.

"I think it is a good thing," Waterville resident Mike Cleary said from the bridge. "I was there to see the Augusta dam go. I'm a big fly fisherman."

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