{
  "projectDescription": "Project partners will restore fish passage at Merwin Meadows Dam.",
  "program": "Community-based Restoration",
  "name": "Norwalk River Restoration- Merwin Meadows Dam",
  "id": "886",
  "state": "Connecticut",
  "state_abbr": "CT",
  "region": "NER - Northeast",
  "constructionStartDate": "2003-05-23 00:00:00.0",
  "nepaStatus": "Complete",
  "nepaCompliance": "Programmatic EA for CRP",
  "fedLeverage": "108567",
  "nonFedLeverage": "436836",
  "accompReportStatus": "Completed",
  "accompReportDate": "2010-09-15 00:00:00.0",
  "accompAcresMilesFlag": "Y",
  "accompVolFlag": "Y",
  "accompDebrisFlag": "N",
  "status": "Completed",
  "locations": [
    {
      "latitude": "41.2043",
      "longitude": "-73.4313",
      "county": "Fairfield County",
      "city": "Cannondale",
      "congDistrict": "4",
      "riverBasin": "Connecticut Coastal",
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    {
      "name": "in-stream"
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      "commonName": "Eel, american",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
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    {
      "species": "trutta",
      "genus": "Salmo",
      "commonName": "Trout, sea-run brown",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    },
    {
      "species": "aestivalis",
      "genus": "Alosa",
      "commonName": "Herring, blueback (river herring)",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    },
    {
      "species": "pseudoharengus",
      "genus": "Alosa",
      "commonName": "Alewife (river herring)",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    }
  ],
  "partners": [
    {
      "name": "US Fish and Wildlife Service",
      "fedAgency": "US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Natural Resources Conservation Service",
      "fedAgency": "Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)"
    },
    {
      "name": "National Fish and Wildlife Foundation"
    },
    {
      "name": "Trout Unlimited"
    },
    {
      "name": "Town of Wilton"
    },
    {
      "name": "Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection"
    },
    {
      "name": "Norwalk River Watershed Initiative"
    },
    {
      "name": "Save the Sound"
    }
  ],
  "strategies": [
    {
      "name": "Fish Passage",
      "primaryFlag": "Y"
    }
  ],
  "photos": [
    {
      "id": "3149",
      "name": "3149_F32672_mmspill.JPG",
      "caption": "Save the Sound and project partners are studying partial or complete removal of the Merwin Meadows Dam to allow anadromous fish passage.",
      "imageType": "Project Photo"
    }
  ],
  "volunteers": [
    {
      "count": "0",
      "hours": "0.0"
    }
  ],
  "techniques": [
    {
      "name": "Dam removal"
    }
  ],
  "funding": [
    {
      "mechanism": "Restore America's Estuaries",
      "activityType": "Planning and Assessment",
      "fyAwarded": "2003",
      "noaaContribution": "23,497.0",
      "noaaFundingFlag": "N",
      "otherNonFedContribution": "0.0",
      "partnerContribution": "0.0",
      "stateContribution": "0.0",
      "sourceProgram": "CRP - Community-based Restoration Program",
      "partner": {
        "name": "Save the Sound"
      }
    }
  ]
}