Hi Tim, et. al.

What year is the jettied building. I agree there must be a way to harness the energy of moving water without undesireable consequences. I haave seen small scale hydroelectric which operate using water piped through a 1.5" ABS plastic pipe. This does not take much water from the river.

There was just a letter in the paper about how the Scribner's Mills dam should not be allowed because the authentic, historic milling of lumber is less significant than the salmon and river health. "Are there ways to have it both ways"?

I almost bought an old grist mill to use as a shop but one of the rules in the shoreland protection zoning along Maine waterways is that if a building within the zone suffers a loss of more than half of it's value it cannot be repaired. The way I see it, mill buildings in Maine are doomed, except the rules would likely be unenforced with enough political support.

Have I mentioned that there were an estimated 160 tide mills on the Coast of Maine and thousands of other mills?

Jim