Nobody Asked …

Where I lived as a kid in Vermont, the same issue was going on.   The hydro dam was important and had been there a long time but, … it was blocking all the spawning fish.  So they built this huge large grand viewing gallery alongside the dam so the fish could swim up past the dam and also it was built in stages for all to see.  But then … in the late 1970s or so.   Hugs.  Scottie