By Mike Rego

The Kickemuit River Restoration Project, done by the Bristol County Water Authority in concert with Save the Bay, recently reached its near completion when a vast variety of vegetation was planted in the areas where two dams once were.

The upper dam, located east of Schoolhouse Road, and the lower dam, right at the BCWA headquarters on Child Street, were removed last year. The plantings done over three days earlier this fall were an effort to "restore what was a pretty disturbed area," according to BCWA Executive Director Steve Coutu.

The plantings were the culmination of a near-decade long effort to remove the dams, one of which had been in place for well over a century and the other for some 70 years to create and protect the area's water supply.

Coutu gave much credit t

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