The towns of Dannemora, Bolton, Indian Lake and Chester all own a high hazard dam rated unsound by state inspectors.
Dannemora’s Chazy Lake Dam lacked annual updates to its emergency action plan (EAP) for over a decade. In reports sent to the town’s supervisor every two years between 2013 and 2021, state Department of Environmental Conservation inspectors noted the omissions. “The EAP is long overdue and needs to be expeditiously submitted,” inspectors urged in a 2019 letter.
Some of the park’s municipal dam
