Despite objections, plans to demolish a dam and drain this 19th century N.J. lake move ahead

A 204-year-old lake appears closer to being drained once an old dam is decommissioned.
Gloucester County and Harrison Township filed a revised plan in April to decommission the dam that forms Ewan Lake. The county and the municipality were two years late in doing so in response to the state Department of Environmental Protection classifying the Ewan Mill Dam as a Class II, significant hazard. Nearly a third of the 1,727 dams regulated by the state DEP are classified as a high or significant hazard.