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PHOTOS: Halifax Dam breached

By Central Maine Newspapers July 17, 2008 01:14 PM

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Staff photos by Jim Evans
MARKING HISTORY: Paula Carey, right, her son, Ken, left, and her grandchildren, Kevin, Cassidy (center) and Lydia, join other observers as they watch the work progress. The family is from Winslow.

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DRAWN DOWN: The reservoir created by the dam will fall about two feet a day during what is expected to be a week-long breaching of the 100-year-old hydroelectric facility on the Sebasticook River.


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RUNNING FREE: The Sebasticook River flows freely through the Halifax Dam in Winslow today as work continues to remove the structure.


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