The Wildlands Conservancy has been quite successful in obtaining grant money to remove dams from Lehigh Valley streams and rivers. One of its latest projects concerns what some might call a dam on Monocacy Creek near Bridle Path Road, near the St. Francis Retreat Center.

Hanover Township Supervisors elected to take no position in response to an inquiry from the state Department of Environmental Protection.

"I wouldn't call it a dam," noted Manager Jay Finnigan. "Beavers build bigger dams than that," he said of plans to remove what looks more like a speed bump.

South Whitehall Commissioners recently voted against the removal of Wehr's Dam along the Jordan Creek.