FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 16, 2005JOHNSON-LARSON BILL EXAMINES NEW ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS FOR FARMINGTON RIVER
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Nancy Johnson (R-5th) and Congressman John Larson (D-1st) today reintroduced legislation aimed at adding the Farmington River to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers program.
The bill commissions a feasibility study to evaluate whether the lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook qualify as a Wild and Scenic Partnership River within the National Park Service's National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The lower Farmington River is defined as the 40 mile stretch between the lower Collinsville Dam in Burlington and the Rainbow Dam in Windsor in the First and Fifth congressional districts.
