SUNBURY – Maintenance crews from the Shikellamy State Park are finishing up their work on the Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam. Crews have been working on replacing fabridam bags one and seven. DCNR shortened the boating season this year and work began on the dam in late August.
John Clifford, Shikellamy State Park Manager says the weather cooperated during the project, “We were really concerned when the project started because of how wet the summer had been, but we got really lucky and the skies cleared and we didn’t get hit by any hurricanes Maria or Irma or anything like that. We had sunny and dry and that’s exactly what we needed for this.”
Thursday morning, Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resourses visited the work site to see the country’s largest inflatable dam, “Here at Shikellamy we have an extraordinary, unique maintenance challenge. We have the county’s largest inflatable dam across the Susquehanna. What I’m proud of is our maintenance crew does the work themselves.”
Mark Peters, DCNR
Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of DCNR
John Clifford, Shikellamy State Park Manager
The project costing just under $900,000 is almost complete. Clifford says the project should be fully finished within the next two weeks.
